THE PERSON TO THE REALM: A COMMENT ON AMITAV GHOSH'S HISTORICAL FICTION, USING THE GLASS PALACE AS AN EXAMPLE
Keywords:
Palace of glass, Verifiable fiction, Identity, Individual, Self-explanationAbstract
Amitav Ghosh is well known as a verifiable writer in Indian Writing in English. From the perspective of those who were colonized, he recreates the subcontinent's colonial past. He, on the other hand, does not merely retell history. Because he wrote history with life, he is appreciated. He portrays the narrative of a person who frequently ends up being the delegate of a local area and its untold history. One such novel is The Glass Palace, which retells the colonial history of India and Burma. The life of Rajkumar, an Indian orphan who was brought to Burma by accident and is now struggling to make ends meet, is the primary focus. This paper examines the novel The Glass Palace by Ghosh to demonstrate how the protagonist's life story is used to retell a lively past.
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