This paper will attempt a comparative reading of Toni Morrison`s Beloved, Sherman Alexie`s Indian Killer, and Mahasweta Devi`s Chotti Munda and his Arrow (translated into English from the original Bengali by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak), from the theoretical perspective of subalterneity and its intersection with history as articulated by the Subaltern Studies Collective of the University of Delhi. This will not only foreground a significant non-Western reading strategy, but also broaden the study of fiction dealing with the marginalized Other through the inclusion of Mahasweta Devi.
