Title: Social Realism in Mitra Phukan’s The Collector’s Wife and in Aruni Kashyap’s The House with a Thousand Stories
Abstract:In the editorial of New perspectives of Indian English Writings, Malti Agarwal says that the Indian English Literature is richly dipped in hues of its native cultural ethos. It gives voice to the prev...In the editorial of New perspectives of Indian English Writings, Malti Agarwal says that the Indian English Literature is richly dipped in hues of its native cultural ethos. It gives voice to the prevalent malpractice in the contemporary Indian society. The works of writers like, Mulk Raj Anand, Raja Rao, R.K. Narayan, Khushwant Singh, Nirad C. Chaudhory, Manohar Malgonkar, Amitav Ghose, Salman Rushdie etc. are acclaimed as masterpieces in the representation of contemporary social reality. There are a few Assamese English writers who could establish themselves in the mainstream of Indian English Literature, having a concerned voice against the rooted 'violence' and the regional biasness towards the land. Mitra Phukan, who is also a translator, children’s writer, trivializes the Assam Movement in her most celebrated novel The Collector’s Wife. On the other hand, in his debut novel The House with a Thousand Stories, Aruni Kashyap depicts the darkest era of Assam’s recent history. The works representing the state terrorism, violence, counter memory and ethics revisit the past and try to give a pen picture of social realism of Assam. This paper is an attempt to study social realism in these two novels.Read More
Publication Year: 2015
Publication Date: 2015-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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