LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 16:3 March 2016
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
         B. A. Sharada, Ph.D.
         A. R. Fatihi, Ph.D.
         Lakhan Gusain, Ph.D.
         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
         C. Subburaman, Ph.D. (Economics)
         N. Nadaraja Pillai, Ph.D.
         Renuga Devi, Ph.D.
         Soibam Rebika Devi, M.Sc., Ph.D.
Assistant Managing Editor: Swarna Thirumalai, M.A.

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Cementing and Synthesizing the Polyphonic Poetics
in the Contemporary Era

Prof. Manminder Singh Anand

Abstract

The present paper attempts to analyse the conceptual aspects of Polyphonic discourse , as also to figure out the radical elements in post colonial writing carried out abroad as well as in India. An attempt has been made to focus on the radical elements in individual authors like Homi K Bhabha, Mikhail Bhaktin, Roland Barthes, Julia Kristeva, Edward W Said, Edwin Ardner, Ferdinand De Saussure, Jachques Derrida and also to compare and contrast their specific preferences and techniques like Intertexuality, Ambivalence , mimicry, pastiche , Wild zone, heteroglossia, carnivalesque, Mimicry, Dialogism, Chronotype, Third space. The paper, thus, presents an overview of the polyphonic voices having a specific tilt towards radical elements. However, this paper also tries to point out how Multiculturalisation has entered in literary texts and has stormed the entire world . The literature plays a considerable role in the development of understanding across cultures. Literature and criticism has eventually emerged as a polyphonic multicultural products in the contemporary era.

The purpose of this article is to provide an operational definition of multiculturalism and its value for all groups as a basis for understanding the changes coming to our society. The motive of the paper is an endeavour to construct futuristic visions of literature and criticism.

Keywords: Multiculturalism , Hybridity , Trans cultralisation ,Polyphony ,Orient , Occident , Post - Colonial , Marginalized , Orientalist , The Other , Subaltern , fiction , Third world

Defining Multiculturalism

With large-scale immigration into Western and Northern Europe, "multiculturalism" has become a major topic of political and intellectual discourse. Multiculturalism is the new paradigm for education for the 21st century, is the most controversial term which is greatly misused and highly misunderstood. Multiculturalism is a system of beliefs and behaviors that recognizes and respects the presence of all diverse groups in an organization or society, acknowledges and values their socio-cultural differences, and encourages and enables their continued contribution within an inclusive cultural context which empowers all within the organization or society. Multiculturalism describes the existence, acceptance, or promotion of multiple cultural traditions within a single jurisdiction, usually considered in terms of the culture associated with an ethnic group. This can happen when a jurisdiction is created or expanded by amalgamating areas with two or more different cultures (e.g. French Canada and English Canada) or through immigration from different jurisdictions around the world (e.g. Australia, United States, United Kingdom, and many other countries).

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

Professor Manminder Singh Anand
Department of English
Dashmesh Khalsa College
Zirakpur-140603
Mohali
Punjab
India
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