| Pub. Date | : March, 2022 |
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| Product Name | : The IUP Journal of English Studies |
| Product Type | : Article |
| Product Code | : IJES090322 |
| Author Name | :Ritu Sharma |
| Availability | : YES |
| Subject/Domain | : Arts & Humanities |
| Download Format | : PDF Format |
| No. of Pages | : 13 |
The purpose of this paper is to explore and explicate the process of textualization. Eventually, it elucidates the cultural, psychological and epistemological innuendo of magical device. For illustration, the study takes the narrative: "Press the Sap, Light the Lamp" by Vijaydan Detha. Then, it looks into the selected text, which fundamentally originated from oral narrative (Rajasthani), through the lens of twentieth century phenomenon, primarily, the postmodern era, rather more precisely the post-war period. The analysis anchors the focus on the condition of textual magic in the selected text. It also prompts to look into other magical realist practitioners in the textual world. Moreover, it focuses on the open-ended element in the selected narrative entailing not only the textualization of real reader (outside the text) but also of the readers inside the text (fictional reader). The assertion primarily emphasizes that textualization appears as an important tool in depicting possible worlds, without which the poetics of postmodernism and magical realism would remain less expressive.