|
Useful Links |
|
|
Article Details :: |
|
|
| Article Name : | | | UNRAVELLING THE POSTMODERN PERSPECTIVES: AMITAV GHOSH’S IN AN ANTIQUE LAND AND THE SHADOW LINES | | Author Name : | | | K. Y. Bindhu , Subha Sachithanand | | Publisher : | | | Ashok Yakkaldevi | | Article Series No. : | | | GRT-5340 | | Article URL : | |  | Author Profile View PDF In browser | | Abstract : | | | The present study is an attempt to unravel the post modern perspectives in Amitav Ghosh’s ‘In An Antique Land’ and’ The Shadow Lines’ .Both fictions voice to insecurities, disorientation, identity crises and fragmentation. The intermingling of his own text with his D.phil thesis locates the intertexuality. The alteration of narrative form by tracing history as a vital reality is examined. The contemporary Cultural rift, Search for identity and the baffling relationship with colonial culture were also analyzed. The study also strives to trace the feature of subversion by upholding cultural as well as anthropological heritage. Parody, Irony and Allegorical style were also included. The study to map the marginalized history and colonial migration brings forth a holistic reality of globalization. | | Keywords : | | |
|
|