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Reflections Of The Past In Amitav Ghosh’s Novels -The Shadow Lines And The Glass Palace
ISSN: 2617 - 0299
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Reflections Of The Past In Amitav Ghosh’s Novels -The Shadow Lines And The Glass Palace
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Publisher: International Journal Of Linguistics, Literature And Trans..
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Abstract
This paper takes into discussion the diasporic phenomena, namely, rootlessness, nostalgia, memory and alienation in two of Amitav Ghosh’s novels namely The Shadow Lines and The Glass Palace. It infers that the characters get respite from memory banks. Ghosh uses the flashback technique in order to intensify the characters’ quest for identity. Diasporic literature traverses barricades in order to clinch a new selfhood. The very thought and longing for belongingness form the core to search for the original root. It refers to the rootedness namely one’s home-place. One is not able to detach from the human bondage, sentiments, and love. Another element which is associated with this attachment to home-place is ‘Memory’. An immigrant never forgets one’s home-place. The thread which links the past and the present is the recollection. Thus, nostalgia and memory are equally interlinked to search for one’s root or belongingness. T...
