LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 13:9 September 2013
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
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         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
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Appropriating the Postcolonial Discourse –
A Critical Analysis of David Malouf’s Fiction

Ashaq Hussain, M.A., M.Phil., NET, SET

Politics and Literature

The relation between politics and literature is a contentious debate. Literature at times bypasses the domain of politics, but at times a literary work that seems autonomous on close scrutiny, becomes much paradoxical. The author at times uses this medium to suit his designs, and occasionally can become a mere puppet under the pressure of discursive practices and something comes out of his pen that he had not initially intended. This intricate relation has assumed serious dimensions especially after the outburst of recent critical theories like New Historicism and Postcolonial Studies.

Focus of This Paper

My intention in this paper is to trace such political underpinnings that pervade the fiction of Australian writer David Malouf. Australia being a settler colony has come under literary discussions frequently, especially because it has produced such rich literary giants that claim to be belonging to the rubric of postcolonialism like David Malouf, Patrick White, etc., but the question that arises here is whether Malouf fully fits the bill accurately.

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Ashaq Hussain Parray, M.A., M.Phil., NET, SET
Assistant Professor English
IUST
Awantipora
Jammu & Kashmir
India
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