Department Of English
Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji
Bhavnagar University
Name: Bhatt Vidhi
Rajeshkumar
Roll No.: 05
SEM: 02
Year: 2010-11
Subject: Indian writing in English
Assignment Topic: Time and space in "The Shadow Lines"
Submitted To: Mr. Devershi Mehta
Time
and space in the Shadow Lines
THE SHADOW LINES’ is
undoubtedly a benchmark in Indian writing in English. The book strip up a
number of themes. Time and distance in ‘THE SHADOW LINES’ are illusory. The
novel move back and forth and the events are not narrated sequentially. The
narrator is man with great and penetrating insight. He can not only peep into
the past and future but also into the lives of characters.
Time
and space in the Shadow Lines
Preface
The shadow Lines is a stunning book –amusing, sad, wise and
international in scope. It chronicles the story of two familiar, one in
Calcutta London from the outbreak of world War ii to modern times .Inter-alia, The shadow Lines is also a book
about the prodigious imagination of its narrator who is the chronicler of the
lives around him and presents the events with amazing insight, sometimes
skipping from city to city in the same breaths and recreating events that
happened before he was born with marvelous accuracy and about the lines and
borders that are being drawn world over to divided and isolate one man from the
other .
One of the chief features of The
Shadow Lines is that it is not written sequentially. The novel moves back and
forth with little regard to the chronology of times and distance.
In this novel the shadow
Lines is a highly invocation, complex and celebrated novel of Amitav Gosh in
the 1988, it received the following year not only not only literary critics but
also some noted literature have acclaimed it for what it has been able to
achieve as a work of art .Its focus is a fact of history ,the post partition
scenario of violence ;butist overall
form is a subtle interweaving of fact ,fiction and reminiscence.
It is a novel in which Amitav Ghosh has been able to realize conception
through an art form which is cohesive .However, it remains
somewhat inaccessible to some readers; they are particularly, mystified by its
non linear mode .The volume of critical essays on the shadow Lines is being
presented in hope that it will enable the reader to gain on insight into the
meaning and structure of insight into the meaning and structure of the novel.
In the first part of
the book, the contributory bring out the various aspects of the novel.
In the second part of
his essays which look at the novel form some current critical perspective
feminist, post colonial and historicist but the emphasis of these essays in
upon practice and not theory .the idea is that the reader learns about a
specific approach by seeing it applied to the shadow Lines .The Third has a
single but significant essay The shadow Lines in context which related the
novel to Ghosh other works ,both fiction and nonfiction.
Content
Part one
1 the shadow lines as a memory novel
Manuela saxena
2 The narrator and the chronicling of self in the shadow Lines.
Premindha Bannejee
4 Nation as Identity in The shadow Lines
Alta kumara
Amitav Ghosh’s
the shadow lines more important of time and space. Thus the poet says “the
shadow Lines “was memory novel.
Time
and space
The shadow lines is a challenge to be overcome by the use of
imagination and desire until space melts time and space coalesce in a seamless
continuity. Both Triadic and the narrator are engaged in the creation of the
world as it comes alive to them or to their powerful imagination .Tribe’s idea
of romantic love in place without history, without a past is magnificent .It is
this continuation that his ideal becomes the story of man who fell in love with
a women across of the sacs.
“The formal
logic of the clock “
In “shadow lines” first time and space here we can say that important
of time and place.
Distance and time are shadows in the novel therefore illusory .Time and
distance have been blended harmoniously and does not cause fiction .These two
challenge in the novel to be overcome by reader’s fine since of imagination
like that of narrator’s Triadic had told him of the desire that could carry one
beyond the limits accommodate the happenings of the shadow Lines.
The story in the shadow lines primarily runs in flashback though
there are interruption at times .It covers the two extreme points on the globe,
Calcutta and London and covers up the story of two families of close
acquaintance.
Triadic gets his initial memories of war time the place again but the
experience and the stories the he pulled out there served as a reservoir for a
long time to come and he entertains the narrator especially ,with them and they
become the magical talismans for him to be endowed with realize later. The
flash breaks now and then to give an insight the lives of characters. The novel
trotting be sahib, treawesen. IIa or Maya Devi and such distance had got to be
covered fast or else it would pose a hardtop the smooth sailing of the plot.
The narrator had described all the events in fact narrated the
whole story in year’s time when he had gone to England or a year’s research to
collection material from India office liberty where all the colonial records
were kept for the PhD thesis on the textile trade between India and England 19th century.
Glimpses of three generations of princes, Tha’mma nationalists Zeal
,shippers of second world war ,death of triadic in Dhaka and Calcutta ,Mu-I-Mubarak episode
in Kashmir all these shreds are blended amicably without giving a feeling of
bumpy ride .And this has been possible only been so closely interwoven
discarded at times in the novel that seem to be seamless continuity.
Sometimes ago there was article in The Indian
Expresses called
“Crossing all
boundaries the end of geography “
In this quote highghtened all the boundaries of imagination, time,
place memory, dream all the aspects are highly used by poets.
In shadow lines exist all the boundaries of human to reach in
Amitav Ghost most described time and space. In the shadow Lines, Amitav Ghosh
says that this novel was one way
“Recollection
of his memory”
The words lines and borers something used limitation of human mind
Amitav Ghosh used most of philosophical ideas in this novel. In novel suggest
Diasporas feeling of the novel.
The narrator’s knowledge of war time London was not gained from books
but from it Uncle Tribe’s experience, Tridib taught him how to use his
imagination.
Removal of the boundaries or the bordered so that the earth becomes but
one country and mankind its citizen or to talk In more practical terms
,formation of world government or at least peaceful co-existence without losing
the culture identity seems to be the message of the shadow lines.
