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Locating The Anglo-Indian Self In Ruskin Bond

by Debashis Bandyopadhyay

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  About the Book: Locating the Anglo Indian Self in Ruskin Bond: A Postcolonial Review An engaging study of an Anglo-Indian writer attempting toestablish his identity in the immediate aftermath of Indianemancipation. Bandyopadhay employs judicious biography in serviceto a sophisticated but accessible psychoanalytic model of egoformation to produce exemplary readings of Bonds texts. -EdwardOShea, Professor of English, The State University of New York atOswego Ruskin Bonds life - and, for that matter, hissemi-autobiographical works - are allegories of the colonialaftermath. His is an odd but exemplary attempt at absorption as amember of the Anglo-Indian ethnic minority, a community whose rolein the shaping of the postcolonial Indian psyche has yet to besystematically analyses. This study explores the dialogue betweenthe biographical and authorial selves of Ruskin Bond, whosesubjectivity is informed by the fantasies of space and time. Bonds experiences of socio-political discrimination underwritehis repressed concerns. He seeks to allay his anxieties through anattempt to signify defiance of the functional agencies of thoseparameters, which ironically become more active as he attempts asymptomatic mastery of their inductive agencies. Nevertheless, fora nostalgic writer the unconscious - which is shaped by theimpressions of the experiences of negotiation between doubleinheritances - exerts a problematic yet discerning influence onBonds literary self. This study offers a chronological reading ofBonds texts, seeking to bring out the constant presence of thisrepressed anxiety and the psychological compulsion to dramatize theself-Other dynamics as a symptomatic method to acquire a convictionof the self. Contents: Introduction Reading Self in a Semi-Autobiographical Author Sense of Exile: An Anglo-Indian Context Text versus Context Space and Time in The Room on the Roof and Vagrants in the Valley Quest for an Authentic Literary Grain Two Versions of The Eyes are not Here Cons ISBN - 9789380601557
 


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