Everyday Resistance in Temsula Ao’s Aosnela’s Story

Abstract

The paper tries to underscore the character of the protagonist Aosenla in Temsula Ao’s novel Aosenla’s Story with the aid of James Scott’s theory everyday resistance. According to James Scott everyday resistance is highly undramatic and it requires neither outright collective defiance nor rebellion. The actors of everyday resistance are often ordinary people who are powerless and unable to strike back at their oppressors directly. It is subtle, passive and covert. Even the actors are unable to understand that they are part of an act of resistance. The paper closely observes Aosenla’s character with the aid of this theory and identifies the various acts of everyday resistances by which Aosenla tries to outshine the so called powerful and emerges out as a woman of newfound freedom and self of her own.