ABSTRACT
This chapter locates the female refugee subject in the subversive arena of Partition and attempts to understand the vulnerabilities of the female subject in the politico-patriarchal world of Partition, through a close reading of Manik Bandopadhyay’s short story, “The Final Solution”. Located within a suspended juridico-legal order, the considerations of the ethical are often nuanced for the refugee. The present chapter explores how the refugee feminine and her agency is threatened by the violating milieu of a pervert patriarchy and how in turn the feminine responds with an equally reciprocated rhetoric of counter-violence. The chapter further contemplates if the counter-violence can lay its claim to emancipation or if it remains a mere reaction formation to the violently oppressive and hegemonic patriarchal milieu of Partition.
