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Postcoloniality versus Nationality in the Novels of Amitav Ghosh and Upamanyu Chatterjee
Monu Bhujel
Assistant Professor
Department of English
Jonai Girls’ College, Assam, India
Abstract
The withdrawal of colonial power from India is physically evident but the aftermath of its impact is palpable in all the spheres of life. A host of writers from India portray the tragedy of colonial rule and its corresponding impact on Indian cultural imagination in postcolonial temporalities. A few novels of Amitav Ghosh and Upamanyu Chatterjee cudgel on the issue of irresistible transgression of western ideologies in Indian psyche. The novels of these writers conspicuously narrate hegemonic acculturation of young Indians under the impact of colonizers established idiom. The exertion gives birth to a new generation perturbed with identity crisis and alienation in postcolonial India. Both the authors’ concerns about how the institutions and the narratives continue to bear the testimony of the colonial connoisseur make their writings suitable terrain to explore on.
Limitations of the Study: This paper is an attempt to analyze the issues of postcolonial discourse contested by two eminent writers Amitav Ghosh and Upamanyu Chatterjee of postcolonial period. It will delimit its scope of study to Ghosh’s novel The Shadow Lines and Chatterjee’s novel English, August: An Indian Story.
Keywords:
Key words: postcolonialism, hybridity, nationalism, identity, culture, crisis etc.
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"Postcoloniality versus Nationality in the Novels of Amitav Ghosh and Upamanyu Chatterjee", International Journal of Novel Research and Development (www.ijnrd.org), ISSN:2456-4184, Vol.8, Issue 1, page no.a269-a278, January-2023, Available :http://www.ijnrd.org/papers/IJNRD2301033.pdf
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