LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 19:11 November 2019
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Social and Religious Transgressions in James Hanley’s
The Closed Harbour

Pavan B. P., M.A. M.Phil., Ph.D. Research Scholar


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Abstract

This paper examines James Hanley’s very important post-war novel The Closed Harbour and it is published in 1952. In the beginning of the paper introduction about James Hanley and about his writing has given. James Hanley is one of the lesser known working class writers who has written extensively but got very little critics and readers’ attention during his time. Hanley has written twenty six novels, short stories, plays and some general articles. In this research paper his fist post-war novel The Closed Harbour has been chosen to explore more about his writing style and theme. The Literary Cultural Materialism theory has been used as an aid to explore more accurately. The Closed Harbour does challenge, alters, there is a dissent as well as transgression and these are common elements of Cultural Materialism. This theory helps in understanding Hanley’s work in a broader perspective.

Keywords: James Hanley, The Closed Harbour, Transgression, merchant navy, Working Class, Cultural Materialism

This paper examines James Hanley’s first post-war novel The Closed Harbour (1952) from the Cultural Materialist point of view. The research makes an attempt to know one of the lesser known British working class writers. James Hanley is a British working class sea writer and until recently many have not read about him and also not considered him seriously. The recent two research works on James Hanley attempted to bring him to limelight, John Fordham’s PhD thesis James Hanley Modernism and Working Class and Michael Hallam’s PhD Avant-Garde Realism: James Hanley, Patrick Hamilton and The Lost Years of the 1940s, these two well researched works give complete autobiographical details, and also show that challenge for any researcher is to chronicle about working class writer because it is a difficult task to find accurate biographical details. The working class writing is a subaltern kind of study and it needs extra care to comprehend this genre. The real facts are elusive, but these two great academic exercises have helped in understanding Hanley in a better perspective. The Cultural Materialism theory helps in connecting history and the text.

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Pavan B. P., M.A. M.Phil.
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Department of English
Manasagangotri
University of Mysore
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