| ID | 110862 |
| Title Proper | Nation and its fictions |
| Other Title Information | history and allegory in Tagore's Gora |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Chaudhuri, Supriya |
| Publication | 2012. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | In Rabindranath Tagore's novel Gora (1910) and Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children (1981), literary works which employ the fiction of nativity to examine a paradoxical moment of historical origin, the idea of the nation is subjected to intolerable strain. Fables of identity are constructed in both novels, yet instead of a 'hardening' of the metaphysical idea that sustains the allegorical parallel, what we witness is a radical dissolution or disintegration of the categories of nation and narrative at the very site of their inscription. I will argue that in both works, the symbolic equation of novel and nation opens up fissures in historical experience. |
| `In' analytical Note | South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies Vol. 35, No.1; Mar 2012: p.97-117 |
| Journal Source | South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies Vol. 35, No.1; Mar 2012: p.97-117 |
| Key Words | Tagore ; Rushdie ; Nation/Narration ; Nativity ; Allegory ; History |