The IUP Journal of English Studies
Decoding the Postcolonial Geo-Linguistic Sangam in Allahabad: A Study of Neelum Saran Gour's Requiem in Raga Janki
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| Pub. Date | : Sep, 2020 |
|---|---|
| Product Name | : The IUP Journal of English Studies |
| Product Type | : Article |
| Product Code | : IJES70920 |
| Author Name | : Chhandita Das and Priyanka Tripathi |
| Availability | : YES |
| Subject/Domain | : Arts & Humanities |
| Download Format | : PDF Format |
| No. of Pages | : 9 |
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Abstract
Language being social in nature is an accepted norm, and therefore other linguistic attributes like culture, religion, etc. often deliberately intervene in language formation. But within these accounts, the inextricable interrelation between "language" and "geography" has often found inadequate academic attention in Indian mainstream scholarship, despite cultures originating in distinct spaces. Considering this melange within the interdisciplinary frame of Peter Jordan's "Thought on a Concept of Language Geography," the present paper intends to explore the spatio-linguistic sangam (confluence) within and beyond the North Indian city of Allahabad through a critical analysis of contemporary Indian English author Neelum Saran Gour's award-winning novel Requiem in Raga Janki, which offers a rich linguistic blend of English, Hindi, and Urdu. The paper further substantiates that such linguistic sangam or convergence with geography and culture in the textual corpus constructs distinct spatio-linguistic identity where multilingual vivacities do succor postcolonial appropriation politics of language.
Introduction
Postcolonial Indian English fiction often witnesses scholarly debates and discussions on the issue of using once a colonizer's language in texts since the trend is to "write back." However, the postcolonial strand demands "writing about itself the way it is, free of its past but still related to it only in a historical sense" (Anchimbe 2007, 5), and there are quite a few postcolonial Indian narratives, which, apart from silhouetting the "writing back" scheme, also invite scholastic questions and formulate challenges swayed through the literary credence of geo-linguistic moorings, cultural undertones, and politics of identity. In fact, such literary texts also adhere to the possibilities of and need for interdisciplinary insights for a comprehensive and integrated understanding of linguistic modalities in
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