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Volume 18:6 June 2018
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Raja Rao’s Political and Metaphysical Concerns in His Early Stories

Dr Anupam Kumar
Ms. AbhaShree Pandey


Raja Rao (1908-2006)
Courtesy: http://www.therajaraoendowment.org/work.html

Abstract

This paper presents before the literary world a review kind of investigation in some of the early stories of Raja Rao. There has always been lack of literary pursuits to explore the different layers of Rao’s stories. To wake from the slumbering negligence towards the stories of Raja Rao and to re-examine his stories as the aid to understand his literary world better, forms the edifice of the arguments of this paper. His stories are few in number and narrow in range but in impact and depth. The methodology used is analytical and comparative to shed light on the main arguments of the paper. This paper discusses the Political Resurgence and Metaphysical Symbolism as the undercurrent waves of some of his stories. These issues in his stories are pertinent, relevant and valuable in understanding the human conditions particularly of his era. The study gets it’s thrust from the awareness that there is need to realize the significance of the intellectual encounter which takes place in early English writing.

Keywords:

Metaphysical and Political

The idea that the short stories of Raja Rao are to be understood through political and metaphysical perspectives in his early story collections forms the edifice of the arguments of this paper. His stories are partly political, partly metaphysical, partly philosophical and even partly autobiographical. The overriding moral and spiritual imperatives are equally important. His story collections, in its received form, thus combines above said threads to make a rope generating a discourse of expansive ambiguity for the critics to play around and re-inscribe new meanings.

It is significant to note that metaphysics is the cream of knowledge. It is here that an Indian writer, more than most writers elsewhere, has the advantages of abundance of resources for his writing. Thoreau said, ‘a fact should flower into truth in the hands of a writer’, similarly should do metaphysical attainments. And Raja Rao was a safe apt hand for this genre of writing.

This is only the beginning part of the article. PLEASE CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE IN PRINTER-FRIENDLY VERSION.

Dr Anupam Kumar
Associate Professor of English
IIMT College of Engineering
Greater Noida, NCR
India
anupam.kumar.1974@gmail.com

Ms. AbhaShree Pandey
(Research Scholar, Mewar University, Chittorgarh, Rajasthan)
Assistant Professor of English
Abha28pandey@gmail.com

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