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The Glass Palace Amitav Ghosh explores different storytelling forms and complicates the picture of pre- and postcolonial South Asian identity in his fourth novel The Glass Palace1. His ambitious epic tells “the stories of a cast of characters, royal working – clogs, and bourgeois Indians, Bengalis, and Burmese – as they grapple with their sense of place and self while violent historical events reshape twentieth century Burma and India2”. Amitav Ghosh’s The Glass Palace is an evocation of the recent

The first example I noticed in the movie was on Halloween when Julian was holding a mask and saying how Auggie looked like the mask. Jack says also in this scene if he looked like him, he would kill himself. This would be an example indirect bullying because they aren’t saying it directly to Auggie, but behind his back. This would also be verbal, because they are talking behind Auggie back. Also on Halloween, Julian asks Jack why he friends with Auggie any ways. This would be an example of relationship

I personally do not know who Rushdie is, yet, by putting the words “web” and “police” is the title, I am now intrigued to see what he could have done on the internet, or better yet, what was done to him. By captivating the audience through the title, Sengupta was then able to tell Ahmed

Throughout the history of man, human beings impose form and order on all aspects of life in order to reassure themselves there is a grand design behind life’s seeming uncertainty. Evidence of this desire are social constructions such as religion and time. However, the strong need to understand the word through concrete systems is also seen in smaller details of daily life, such as fiction novels. The average person enjoys realistic fiction, or fiction that mirrors what one perceives as the “the human

Sanskriti Merchant SYBA 345,141259 A. ENG. 4.01 19th January 2016 Role of relationships and literary devices in “Narcopolis” by Jeet Thayil Some might argue that this literary masterpiece is a book about wasted lives, but it isn’t. It’s a book about selling one’s soul and taking a great amount of satisfaction from it. This unapologetic portrayal of a life devoted to drugs is Thayil’s debut novel from the perspective of an outsider slowly gaining the status of someone who belongs. It might be considered

The nature of the pattern of a travelogue is determined by the personality of the writer. V.S. Naipaul is a zealous traveller, like Hakluyt, Marco Polo, Darwin, Defoe and so many other sailors and sojourners; he has travelled far and wide. His travel writing exhibits various aspects in the light of history, ethnography, sociology, aggression, concern for weak, sympathy for sufferers and his grand evaluation of men, manners, objects and development of a country. He has been one of the greatest Caribbean

In this thesis, the goal is to examine how the sense of Self and Place is portrayed and influenced by colonialism, in two postcolonial fictional South African novels; J.M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians and Nadine Gordimer’s Burger’s Daughter. Both authors have won the Nobel Prize for Literature, in 1991 Gordimer was the first South African author to receive this Prize, and Coetzee joined her in 2003. First of all, Coetzee’s novel Waiting for the Barbarians offers the story of the Magistrate

Deepa Bavanasi The Glass Palace Amitav Ghosh explores different storytelling forms and complicates the picture of pre- and postcolonial South Asian identity in his fourth novel The Glass Palace1. His ambitious epic tells “the stories of a cast of characters, royal working – clogs, and bourgeois Indians, Bengalis, and Burmese – as they grapple with their sense of place and self while violent historical events reshape

Zadie Smith is a British African writer, she was born October 25, 1975 in the United Kingdom. Some of her most well-known books are: On Beauty, White Teeth, NW, The Autographed Man, and latest book, Swing Time. When she wrote White Teeth she was known as a strong and powerful writer. She wrote White Teeth when she was 24. Her latest work Swing Time is the first piece of work that is written in first person. In her books there are many themes that she has in her book, she has relationships with friends

Swing Time by Zadie Smith talks about two childhood friends who have completely different personalities but share their love for dance furthermore shows their journey through the passage of time. The name Swing Time comes from the 1936 film Swing Time which is a crucial symbol. It represents the girls' ultimate fantasy of success in the dance world it is an exuberant, old-fashioned film that celebrates the passion and power of dance. One of the central themes in this novel is betterment, ability