Title: Exoticism in L. H. Myers' THE NEAR AND THE FAR
Abstract:The Anglo-Indian Literature is no less interesting today than that it was during the British Raj in India. The Anglo-Indian Fiction, in the words of Bhupal Singh; an Indian scholar, ‘describes the lif...The Anglo-Indian Literature is no less interesting today than that it was during the British Raj in India. The Anglo-Indian Fiction, in the words of Bhupal Singh; an Indian scholar, ‘describes the life of English men in India’.1. It covers the revelation of writers on discern India. There is an extensive as well intensive narration and observation on India in their fiction opus. Such composition is pertinent to contemplate over the social milieu and cross-cultural exchange of British-India during ‘Sahibs’ Ruling in the Post-colonial period. Their calligraphy is not mere recording of the British-Indian affiliation. However, it is an augment of the writers’ idiosyncratic perspective on British life in India with a deliberation. Apart from such eking out there is outlandish prospect on India in Myers’ THE NEAR AND THE FAR (1929). L.H.Myers’(1881-1944) who is a contemporary of Edward Thompson and E.M. Forster, an Anglo-Indian novelists. In the novel, he has used India of 16 th Century as a background for fiction of every sort to view on Indians. In his ‘Introduction’ to The Root and The Flower (1984) Penelope Fitzgerald has pointed out “Myers wants us to look at his world of appearances and beyond it. Appearances cannot be dismissed as and illusion, for no illusion can be created except by reason.” 2. And here an attention goes on his word of ‘Appearance’. It is to be noted here that Myers is desperate in appellation of experiences and sentiments from that of Anglo-Indian novelists such as John Masters and Paul Scott. He is exterior to the tradition of Anglo-Indian Literature as neither his visitation India not doled out the predilections of those novelists. Besides his India is a unique formation of artistry which is ill-matched with other Anglo-Indian novelists’ depiction especially the great King Akbar’s reign. The present novel which has come out of such context, an any Indian may ask what kind of account ‘authenticity’ is there in presentation on India? And here Myers is fully weird from other Anglo-Indian novelists as well. Inna Walter very clearly points out the difference between Myers and other Anglo-Indian writers:Read More
Publication Year: 2011
Publication Date: 2011-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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