Woman, genealogy, history: deconstruction of family and nation in Amitav Ghosh's "The shadow lines" and Manju Kapur's "Difficult daughters"
Identifiers
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10835/1275
ISSN: 1578-3820
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25115/odisea.v0i9.203
ISSN: 1578-3820
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25115/odisea.v0i9.203
Share
Metadata
Show full item recordAuthor/s
Martos Hueso, María ElenaDate
2008Abstract
Since the publication of Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children, the recent history of Indian Literature in English has been characterised by a growing interest in rewriting the history of India from an angle diametrically opposed to that of offi cial historiography. Taking as a starting point Foucault’s concept of Nietzschean genealogy, which emphasises the value of microhistory and interrogates the function of narrative linearity in historiographic practices, this paper analyses two analogous Indian English novels based on the independence and subsequent partition of the Indian subcontinent: The Shadow Lines by Amitav Ghosh and Diffi cult Daughters by Manju Kapur. It mainly focuses on the deconstruction of the nationalist myth, where women and motherhood lay at the centre of the gestation and birth of the new nation. Desde la publicación de Midnight’s Children de Salman Rushdie, la historia reciente de la novela india en lengua inglesa se ha visto marcada por un interés creciente en re...
Palabra/s clave
Amitav Ghosh
Manju Kapur
The Shadow Lines
Difficult Daughters
history
genealogy
women
Indian Literature in English
historia
genealogía
mujeres
literatura india en lengua inglesa