RICE AS METAPHOR IN ORLANDO DA COSTA’S SIGN OF WRATH (1961)
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bhatkar, mundkar, rice, social and human conflictsAbstract
The article discusses the bhatkar-mundkar relationship and how rice cultivation and production are used by Orlando da Costa in the novel The Sign of Wrath. The author describes, in the context of Goa, social conflicts as being centered on the relationship between the mundkar (rural worker) and the bhatkar (landlord). The fragility of the social situation of the mundkar, as an individual who cultivates rice on account of others and being at the same time dependent on it for its own subsistence, is the central focus of the novel. Costa’s work emphasizes the importance of rice in the Goan economy and how food can play an important role in social organization and regulation.
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