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Contents
Contents 03
Editor‟s Note 05
Editor‟s Contribution 06
English Literature
1. „Concern For The Other‟: An Insight Into The Discourse Of Mark Twain And Walt
Whitman
Shabnam Lohani 08
2. The Balance of Time And Place In The Shadow Lines
T. Gayathri 12
3. Caste, Race, Communities And The Problems Of Marginality And The Identity Issues In
Namdev Dhasal‟s And Alice Walker‟s Poetry
G.S.Baviskar 17
4. Political Ideology And Construction Of Nation In Salman Rushdie's Shalimar The Clown
Dr. Nidhi Sharma 20
5. Stylistic reading of The Cop And The Anthem by O. Henry
Dr. Naushad Umarsharif Shaikh 34
6. Eccentric Characters In Talkative Man
Dr.S.Parvathi Devi 45
7. Revisiting Self: An Analysis Of Kamala Das' My Story
Dr. Rani Rathore 49
8. Sleeping Beauty as A Gendered Icon
Libin K. Kurian 55
V. Arthy 94
Skills Training in English
16. Interaction In Classroom: A Tool To Enhance Communicative Competence
Dr. Shilpi Bhattacharya 101
17. Web Blogs and Podcast For Teaching-Learning
Nikhil Joshi 105
Reviews
18. Portrayal of Social Relationship In Families
Jacquline Sara 108
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The Balance of Time and Place in The Shadow Lines
T. Gayathri
―I always dreamt of becoming a writer‖ lives of Indians in many ways. Amitav took all
says Amitav Ghosh, world known Bengali themes to his fictional work. ―Looking Back‖ he
Indian writer in English literature. He has got says ―I see that the experiences of that period
the credit of writing the historic fiction with the were profoundly important to my development
backdrop of individual suffering caused by as a writer‖.2 His narrative style in „The Shadow
political and social milieu. He personalized all Lines‟ is more sophisticated and realistic
the silent voices and depicted the story of The in describing the real political events. When he
Shadow Lines by intertwining nature of cultures. moves through his corpus of writing, it is clear,
In Bengali culture, ―writing is the most greatly Ghosh has by now become a bit notorious in
valued and that was my inspiration‖ says Ghosh. his bold embrace of new genres and styles when
His fictions reflect the ―Migrant sensibility‖, ever he undertakes a new work of art.
with his central characters that are mainly
travelers and diasphoric exiles. Ghosh‘s The fundamental aspect of novelistic
interlocking of distinct times and distant places technique is the point of view from which the
are highly extreme. story is told, since that would determine the
realism in a story, Particularly ‗The Shadow
Amitav is an urban based novelist tries Lines‟ is a continuous journey into one self
to recover the idyll of the world from the which dissects the person physically and
experiences of his childhood. As an emigrant he psychologically. To study the characters of
explores the native sensibility with the Amitav Ghosh we should read his novel
fragments of his ancestral memory. We can‘t adopting psycho analytic criticism. It has
find a routine theme in his works. They are all offered a fairly, reliable insight into the dark and
thoroughly researched in a unique manner with strange tracts of the human mind. The
a tough narrative technique. protagonists of such kind of novels find them
selves odd with the society and under go various
Meenakshi Mukerjee says: ―The degrees of psychological transformations. All
apparently simple narration of The Shadow these forces changes the personalities of
Lines is in fact a complex jigsaw puzzle of different characters getting them finding a
varied time and place segments including some transcendental, superficial, critical way of
magic pieces that mirror others‖1. Constant solving the problems.
change of time and place show his scholarly co-
ordination in narrating the story. He represents Through out the novel Ghosh introduces
two significant techniques, the picaresque and a typical web of interrelated images to achieve
social realism, to represent Middle East fiction. an artistic integration between his vision and the
He gave voices to his characters to question the lives he has portrayed in the novel. But the
leaders, through his communalism, colorization, images and the memory dominate the narrative.
re-colonization, neo-colonization is recurring Deeply touched by the violence, Ghosh
thoughts in Ghosh‘s work. describes riots of 1984. These details are
relevant to any riots and any kind of violence
1984 was a momentous year for India; that takes place in the entire world. In The
there was a separatist violence in the Punjab, Shadow Lines using an unusual narrative
military attack on the Golden temple of technique the writer reveals the details of the
Amritsar, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi‘s
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The different voices and characters that narrative, The Shadow Lines reflects the
constitute the memory becomes the narrative existence of nameless narrator resembling the
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voice, which unifies and integrates the divergent personal life experiences of Amitav Ghosh. The
narrative is not sequential; it is highly Mayadebi‘s families who settled in Bangladesh,
interrupted by the intrusion of memory and Jethamoshai and in Calcutta the family of
gives us the alienation effect. The story of narrator all the setting of place, characters,
choudaries and prices set in India and England problems which are caused the death of people
provides the narrator learning contemporary Tridib and alienation Ila are interwined together
political events, such as quest for freedom, only with political concept.
theme of alienation, roles of demarcations
which differentiate the states. To project all Ghosh‘s works all enriched with a rich
these, narrator evokes some post-colonial and vocabulary which exemplifies the narration
cross-cultural encounters. which can be easily visualized by the reader.
Ghosh is basically a tough writer poses his
His narrative weaves a complex web characters, Jewelled with enormous description
linking the historical and fictitious. The of vocabulary. The partition of India and
narrative incorporates epistolary memories, oral Pakistan inspired many writers took this theme
stories and news paper accounts the narrator of national partition. But Ghosh creatively
himself is structured by the experiences that projects the present novel in a way how the
invite the reader‘s participation. In this creative partition still effects the older and also the
relationship between the narrator and the reader, younger generation. The new writers are
reader starts interpreting the meaning of story, specialized in experimenting the narrative
according to his own ideological context and up technique and their usage of English language.
to his level of knowledge even the writer is
pulling him into his own beliefs and As G.N. Devy says ―The Indian writers
assumptions. in English have started enjoying telling stories
in the rambling manner of The kathasaritagar,
Given such a vast scope in terms of and telling them in one or the other Indian
space and time, the important questions Registers of English . . . . . They combine a
naturally would be the method of narration a great playfulness with a serious involvement in
fundamental aspect of novelistic technique is the history‖ 4 (112 TSL).
point of view from which the story is told, since
that would determine the verisimilitude of the Ghosh portrayed the characters of
story. Amitav Ghosh‘s The Shadow Lines too grandmother, and Ila with a similarity. They
makes use of a first person narration. However, both live on with their self-created truth, which
the unnamed named narrator in The Shadow is nothing but an illusion. The free-worlds of Ila
Lines does not affect the reader‘s belief, and grandmother are the self-built circles in
because, despite his anonymity, Ghosh‘s which they hide every time in their lives. Ghosh
narrator is a perfect placed character. The manages in masterly way the mingling of past
precise class location of his family, Bengali time (memory) and present time (reality).
middle class is minutely described, with its pulls The past is constructed through
and tugs, conflicting values, the dominant and references to houses, photographs, maps, road
deviant members, and relentless compulsions. names, news papers, advertisements etc., this
technique allows the reader to examine the text
Navy kapadia calls this novel, ‗political with diverse co-texts and validate author‘s
nuances‘3 (Kapadia 122) and its potrayed of perceptions of his time and milieu covered by
interpersonal relationship viewed as metaphor, the novel. In the opening lines, the narrator
political truths, people‘s intolerance towards the refers to his Mayadebi‘s visit to England and
division of countries. The entire novel consist establishes the narrative frame work.
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