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1. Cantering Subaltern Women's Voices: Critique and Redefinition : Spivak critiques conventional Western feminist frameworks for overlooking intersecting oppressions faced by subaltern women. Advocates for an approach centering on subaltern women’s experiences and agency.- Seeks to redefine the consciousness of subaltern women as a semiotic object. Explores historical contexts like widow sacrifice in Hindu India to understand subaltern women’s experiences. Highlights the complexities of navigating patriarchal strategies within shifting cultural norms in colonial context

2. Decoding Colonial Misrepresentation of Sati: - Colonial misrepresentation of Sati as a symbolic enactment of gender and ritual ideologies.
- Clash between perceptions of victimization and nuanced struggles influenced by factors like inheritance rights and communal misogyny.
- Subsuming ritual acts into criminal frameworks in colonial narratives, leading to conflicting interpretations of female agency.
- Erasure of female agency and subjectivity in colonial discourse on Sati, defining women as objects of male possession.
- Example of Bhuvaneswari Bhaduri challenging conventional interpretations of Sati through her activism, reflecting the ongoing struggle for subaltern voices to be acknowledged within dominant discourses.

3. For Example : Applying the text on the novel “Meatless Days” through a theoretical perspective, particularly postcolonial theory, provides insights into how the colonial misrepresentation of sati intersects with broader themes of power, identity, and representation. "Meatless Day" by Sarah Einstein is a short story about a family tradition where meat is not consumed on Mondays, known as Meatless Day. It focuses on themes of guilt, responsibility, and ethical considerations surrounding food consumption. Comparing it to "sati," a historical practice where widows immolated themselves on their husband's funeral pyre, would be quite a stretch. While both involve rituals and societal norms surrounding food or actions related to it, the contexts and implications are vastly different. Sati was a practice rooted in patriarchal and religious beliefs, while Meatless Day is a contemporary family tradition reflecting ethical and dietary choices.