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Woman, Genealogy, History: Deconstructions of Family and Nation in Amitav Ghosh's The Shadow Lines and Manju Kapur's Diffi cult Daughters
2017
ODISEA Revista de estudios ingleses
Abstract:Since the publication of Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children, the recent history of Indian Literature in English has been characterised by a growing interest in rewriting the history of India from an angle diametrically opposed to that of official historiography. Taking as a starting point Foucault's concept of Nietzschean genealogy, which emphasises the value of microhistory and interrogates the function of narrative linearity in historiographic practices, this paper analyses two
doi:10.25115/odisea.v0i9.203
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