LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 14:1 January 2014
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
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Raising the Roof:
The Postmodern Feminist Reconsiderations of History in Alice Borchardt’s Beguiled

K. Vijila, M.A., M.Phil., M.Ed.

Raising the Roof

The primary aim of my article is to capitalize on the idiomatic expression “Raising the Roof” so that it is expanded into demonstrating a postmodern feminist paradigm. Hence, I undertake an analysis as to how Alice Borchardt, a renowned American novelist, interacts with history, with feminist concerns. The interaction is one post-modernist demonstration of art which permeates the narratives of the recent times.

I consider Alice Borchardt Beguiled as one specimen of postmodern feminist art which has incorporated a wide variety of the postmodern discourse. Within the parameter of my analysis I have attempted to demonstrate how her novel Beguiled excavates the very real history of history as “a complimentary perspective from which to view the recent revival of interest in questions of history in literary studies in the United States. (Montrose 25). I infer that by problematizing history, Alice Borchardt carves out a new worth, a new response and a new deliberation in her text.

Alice Borchardt is one writer, whose collection of fiction is not much talked about in the American literary scenario, the simple reason being that much of her fictional materials run at a tangent with magical and non-human elements. At one point it may look like a Harry Porter movie, at another, it eventuates a feeling of animal comics. This is one postmodern crisis, I wish to make a reference to. While post modernism is pivoted upon pastiche, naturally then Alice Borchardt’sfictional materials demonstrate configurations of magic realism and new historicism. Eventually Alice Borchardt can be regarded as a postmodern feminist, in that she saddles her texts with new historicist ventures. Thus, Beguiled is expressive of manifestations of historical perception of the artist who “began with a desire to speak with the dead” (Greenblatt 1)

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Prof. K. Vijila, M.A., M.Phil., M.Ed.
Assistant Professor of English
St. John’s College
Palayamkottai-627002
Tamilnadu
India
arunji2010@gmail.com
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