The Portrayal of Multiculturalism

ISBN-13: 9786200222114 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 332 str.

Ellutla Gangadhar

Opis

An attempt is made to trace and subsequently establish the continuing and strongly present socio-cultural, political and more degradation and decadence of the nation to be tallest of the colonizers' legacy, through a textual analysis of Mistry's Such a Long Journey (1991), A Fine Balance (1995) and Family Matters (2002) spanning a successive chronological time from i.e. from the Indo-Pak war of 1971 to the Mumbai Riots of 1991 - expose the ongoing corrupt practices of the colonized world of the past and the post colonial space of the present. The South Asian Diaspora writer M.G.Vassanji recognize the dearth of identity and begin writing about the pockets of communities who have immigrated across Africa and North America and have been facing the world of problems unknown to the outside world. To make the facts known to the world of how the life is like of these immigrants M.G.Vassanji, brings out his well-sketched, and fact-finding literary works like The Gunny Sack, No New Land and Amriika. Focuses on the style, technique, and modes of the counter-narratives employed by both writers, Mistry and Vassanji in their novels.

O autorze

Gangadhar Ellutla, Dr.
Dr.Gangadhar Ellutla, M.A., M.Sc., B.Ed., Ph.D.(2018) from S.V.University, Tirupati, A.P, India. He has published 4 articles in national journals; presented papers at 3-National and 3-International Seminars/Conferences & Participated in 2 Workshops. Presently he is working as a Teaching Assistant in the Dept.of English, S.V.University, Tirupati.