The Gloom and a Gleam Beyond: Problematising Violence in Mitra Phukan’s The Collector’s Wife & Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss
Subaltern study has been an important derivative of the postcolonial discourse of ‘writing back’ to the ‘grand narratives’ of the colonial West and some of the modern fictions by Indian English writers tackle among other themes, the disturbing issues such as the condition of dalits writhing under th...
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| description | Subaltern study has been an important derivative of the postcolonial discourse of ‘writing back’ to the ‘grand narratives’ of the colonial West and some of the modern fictions by Indian English writers tackle among other themes, the disturbing issues such as the condition of dalits writhing under the burden of double colonialism and a resultant eruption of ethnic insurgency. The fictional representation of ethnic violence serves a twin purpose for the Indian English writer in so far as, it helps him/her not only to situate human experience in the matrix of veritable socio-political forces that actuates the nature of existence at a particular period of time in the context of the story told, but also to historicize the perspective used in analyzing how far the issues of contention are related to colonial experience of the state. This paper concentrates on how the writers of The Inheritance of Loss (2006) and The Collector’s Wife (2005) have tackled the issue of ethnic insurgency with their respective strategic stances of recovery and resilience and interestingly, in both the novels, the issue of violence acquires a discursive character from the feminist viewpoint. The predicaments of both Sai and Rukmini, the protagonists of The Inheritance of Loss and The Collector’s Wife respectively, experience how terror and violence trammel up their private and public spaces to make them feel the anxiety of being alienated at home. A comparative study of these novels throws into focus the strategic differences in response to the issue of ethnic insurgency from Indian English writers. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-4f3d038da92f41099f2064ac941b66df2022-12-21T18:00:40ZengSarat Centenary CollegePostScriptum: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Literary Studies2456-75072018-01-013i445210.5281/zenodo.1318886The Gloom and a Gleam Beyond: Problematising Violence in Mitra Phukan’s The Collector’s Wife & Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of LossArun Kumar Mukhopadhyay0Ramkrishna Mahavidyalaya, UnakotiSubaltern study has been an important derivative of the postcolonial discourse of ‘writing back’ to the ‘grand narratives’ of the colonial West and some of the modern fictions by Indian English writers tackle among other themes, the disturbing issues such as the condition of dalits writhing under the burden of double colonialism and a resultant eruption of ethnic insurgency. The fictional representation of ethnic violence serves a twin purpose for the Indian English writer in so far as, it helps him/her not only to situate human experience in the matrix of veritable socio-political forces that actuates the nature of existence at a particular period of time in the context of the story told, but also to historicize the perspective used in analyzing how far the issues of contention are related to colonial experience of the state. This paper concentrates on how the writers of The Inheritance of Loss (2006) and The Collector’s Wife (2005) have tackled the issue of ethnic insurgency with their respective strategic stances of recovery and resilience and interestingly, in both the novels, the issue of violence acquires a discursive character from the feminist viewpoint. The predicaments of both Sai and Rukmini, the protagonists of The Inheritance of Loss and The Collector’s Wife respectively, experience how terror and violence trammel up their private and public spaces to make them feel the anxiety of being alienated at home. A comparative study of these novels throws into focus the strategic differences in response to the issue of ethnic insurgency from Indian English writers.http://postscriptum.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/pS3.iArun_.pdfethnicinsurgencyviolenceanxietyalienated |
| spellingShingle | Arun Kumar Mukhopadhyay The Gloom and a Gleam Beyond: Problematising Violence in Mitra Phukan’s The Collector’s Wife & Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss PostScriptum: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Literary Studies ethnic insurgency violence anxiety alienated |
| title | The Gloom and a Gleam Beyond: Problematising Violence in Mitra Phukan’s The Collector’s Wife & Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss |
| title_full | The Gloom and a Gleam Beyond: Problematising Violence in Mitra Phukan’s The Collector’s Wife & Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss |
| title_fullStr | The Gloom and a Gleam Beyond: Problematising Violence in Mitra Phukan’s The Collector’s Wife & Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Gloom and a Gleam Beyond: Problematising Violence in Mitra Phukan’s The Collector’s Wife & Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss |
| title_short | The Gloom and a Gleam Beyond: Problematising Violence in Mitra Phukan’s The Collector’s Wife & Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss |
| title_sort | gloom and a gleam beyond problematising violence in mitra phukan s the collector s wife kiran desai s the inheritance of loss |
| topic | ethnic insurgency violence anxiety alienated |
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