Volume : III, Issue : X, October - 2014

Recalling Assam‘s Past: A Study of History–Fiction Nexus in Patkair Ipare Mor Desh

Ms. Monalisa Konwar

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A resurgent interest in historicity and the eventual re–writing of native history has animated much recent postcolonial narratives. With a critical vision in enunciating and reconstructing historiography by seamless tailoring of fact and fiction these narratives express scepticism on the monolithic nature of history and offer different alternatives and plural histories to reinterpret and subvert the historical documents and events they refer to. This tendency to reclaim the nation’s history is noticed among various postcolonial Indian writers including a good number of writers from the North–East too. Their increased inclination for historiography can be explicated as their attempt to assert a sense of historical locations in the erased pages of history. Pushed to the margins of the literary canon it is in part by retrieving own history and recreating personages as subjects and participants in contemporary fictional accounts they claim a fair representation in the national discourse too. ChandanaGoswami’s recent novel PatkairIpareMorDesh(meanig Beyond the Patkais Lies my Country)resuscitates an important phase of Asssam’s history by re–interrogating Ahom history during the 13th and 14th century Assam. This paper attempts at examining incorporation of historiographical elements in PatkairIpareMorDesh focusing on how the writer problematizes the generic boundary between history and fiction and questions the monology and claim to objectivity of historical representation and thereby ings the untold stories to the fore.

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Ms. MonalisaKonwar Recalling Assam’s Past: A Study of History – Fiction Nexus in PatkairIpareMorDesh International Journal of Scientific Research, Vol : 3, Issue : 10 October 2014

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