critical analysis of chitra banerjee's The Palace of Illusions
Name : V.Kala
College : St. John’s College, Palayamkottai,
Place : Tirunelveli.
INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH-A LITERARY UPRISING
NON-LINEAR NARRATIVES
In a literary work, narrative is an art of telling a story to the readers and the writer uses various techniques to narrate his story. Narrative technique is vastly an aesthetic enterprise. A narrator detains the past, holds present and prepares the reader for future. The features of narratives include characters with clear personalities or identities, integrated dialogue; where tense may transform to the present or the future. There are many types of narrative. They can be imaginary, factual or a combination of both. The literary work may include fairy stories, mysteries, science fiction, historical fiction, romances, myth and folktale. Non-linear narrative is one of the narrative techniques for writing. It is sometimes, disjointed or disrupted. Non-linear narratives often use flashbacks in which past or future events revealed through memory or other methods during exposition of a current event, or narrating another story inside the main plot line. A traditional narrative is a story or plot with a beginning, middle and end, but the non-linear narrative does not follow the usual narrative technique. In this technique, events are portrayed out of chronological order or dream immersions or stream of consciousness. There are many writers in Indian writing in English. Women novelists have also shown their extraordinary caliber in the realm of Indian fiction in English. They showed their mettle in every field. Belonging to the group of young Indian writers that emerged on the literary scene with a post-colonial diasporic identity after Salman Rushdie and Bharati Mukherjee. Indian writing in English has derived inspiration from the wealth of material available in the form of stories from the great Indian epics The Ramayana and The Mahabharata and The Puranas and also local legends and folk-lore. Francesca Orsini
College : St. John’s College, Palayamkottai,
Place : Tirunelveli.
INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH-A LITERARY UPRISING
NON-LINEAR NARRATIVES
In a literary work, narrative is an art of telling a story to the readers and the writer uses various techniques to narrate his story. Narrative technique is vastly an aesthetic enterprise. A narrator detains the past, holds present and prepares the reader for future. The features of narratives include characters with clear personalities or identities, integrated dialogue; where tense may transform to the present or the future. There are many types of narrative. They can be imaginary, factual or a combination of both. The literary work may include fairy stories, mysteries, science fiction, historical fiction, romances, myth and folktale. Non-linear narrative is one of the narrative techniques for writing. It is sometimes, disjointed or disrupted. Non-linear narratives often use flashbacks in which past or future events revealed through memory or other methods during exposition of a current event, or narrating another story inside the main plot line. A traditional narrative is a story or plot with a beginning, middle and end, but the non-linear narrative does not follow the usual narrative technique. In this technique, events are portrayed out of chronological order or dream immersions or stream of consciousness. There are many writers in Indian writing in English. Women novelists have also shown their extraordinary caliber in the realm of Indian fiction in English. They showed their mettle in every field. Belonging to the group of young Indian writers that emerged on the literary scene with a post-colonial diasporic identity after Salman Rushdie and Bharati Mukherjee. Indian writing in English has derived inspiration from the wealth of material available in the form of stories from the great Indian epics The Ramayana and The Mahabharata and The Puranas and also local legends and folk-lore. Francesca Orsini
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