Postcolonial Studies

Sarkowsky, Katja; Schulze–Engler, Frank

doi:10.1007/978-3-476-00406-2_22

English and American Studies 2012

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-476-00406-2_22

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Postcolonial Studies

Katja Sarkowsky¹,

Frank Schulze–Engler²

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“… 1. For critiques of the “Writing Back” paradigm, see, for example, Lazarus (2013), Sarkowski and Schulze-Engler (2012), and Sorensen (2007). …”

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When remembering back is not enough: Provincializing Europe in World War II novels from India and New Zealand

Schulze–Engler

2018

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While the participation of millions of non-European soldiers in global wars has often been neglected or told as a victimological tale of unwilling war participation, choice and agency play a major part in the complex mnemonic agenda that unfolds in two novels that have pioneered the literary re-imagination of World War II from a non-European perspective: Amitav Ghosh's The Glass Palace and Patricia Grace's Tu. Both novels provide fascinating insights into ongoing processes of memory revision that contribute to an altered global memory of global war. Setting the historical record right by highlighting the achievements and sacrifice of non-European soldiers certainly constitutes one component of these processes, but to reduce these novels to instances of an allegedly "postcolonial" act of "remembering back" not only misses what these novels are substantially about, but also ironically re-centers Europe as the hub of global memory rather than decentring Eurocentric memory routines.

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“… 1. For critiques of the “Writing Back” paradigm, see, for example, Lazarus (2013), Sarkowski and Schulze-Engler (2012), and Sorensen (2007). …”

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When remembering back is not enough: Provincializing Europe in World War II novels from India and New Zealand

Schulze–Engler

2018

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Constructing Ethnic Identity in Rajanikanta Bardoloi’s Miri Jiyori: A (Post) Colonial Understanding of the Text

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2020

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Purpose of the study: The purpose of this study is to understand the concept of ethnic Identity projected in the early novels of Assamese literature. This study also investigates a colonial narrative in the text and tries to understand the present scenario highlighting the past. Methodology: It is a descriptive analysis based on qualitative method research. Focusing on the concept of ethnic Identity the research has been done under the discourse of postcolonial literary theory. The data and speculation are drawn from the secondary sources. Any kind of technical software has not been used in carrying out the research. Main Findings: The research brings out to the forefront that even in the colonial period; the native writers seem to be conscious about their own culture and the society. They were aware of the marginal boundary created by hegemonic colonial products. The writers raise the question of constructing ‘self’ and ‘other’ and a developing sense of cultural hierarchy. Applications of this study: This study would help to locate the space of marginalised society in that colonial construction and help the researchers to understand the gap between the early Assamese literatures of the colonial period. Moreover, the study also finds out the awareness of the writers even in the colonial rule about the peripheral boundary and ethnic Identity of a multiethnic/multilingual society. Novelty/Originality of this study: It is certain that Assamese novels have been studied under various theoretical frameworks, but as we are concerned this theme has not been discussed yet for this particular novel. The presentation of the colonial past in the text is the originality of this research.

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Postcolonial Studies

Cited by 2 publications

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When remembering back is not enough: Provincializing Europe in World War II novels from India and New Zealand

When remembering back is not enough: Provincializing Europe in World War II novels from India and New Zealand

Constructing Ethnic Identity in Rajanikanta Bardoloi’s Miri Jiyori: A (Post) Colonial Understanding of the Text

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