Exploring Geo-historical Identity in Abdulrazak Gunah’s Novel Paradise
Shankar V . Bhosale
- Pages
- pp. 184-188
- Published
- January 1, 2017
Shankar V . Bhosale (2017). Exploring Geo-historical Identity in Abdulrazak Gunah’s Novel Paradise. Labyrinth, 8(1), 184-188.
Abstract
As the know literature is a tool which explores the world and its reality . It can study historical, social, geographical perspectives of human life. Literature is pen-portraiture of society . But if we think how literature is studied keeping the view of geography , Literary geography was not actually geographical analysis of literature but rather a helping hand in descriptive geographic portraya l. Geography gives us setting of the novel. The series of locations, geological strata, barren mountainsides, rivers, battlefields are used in literature. These geographical locations whether good or bad for living, is shown with the forms of literature. S paces has been intrinsically linked to fictional texts. Literature is the artistic form of an experimental geography . The geographical maps gives the idea of territory , while travelling in that area, some texts are often accompanied by a large number of ma ps, sometimes sketches carried out site, manuscript drawing from the coast. The representation of space supported by a literary instrument and iconographic sources are in close relation with chorographic literature. This makes us to ponder the visual dimen sion of geography and more particularly literary geography as well as the link between different types of images and writing of space. In literature, Amitav Ghosh in his Sea of Poppies (2008) and River of Smoke (2011) revisits the geography . Even Joseph Conrad’s novels like Lord Jim, Heart of Darkness symbolized the territory of Africa as dark side realty . It ’s like Eco critical Study . In their charting of exotic lands, peoples and phenomena, adventures seem especially well suited, and it is studied through poetry , novels as a literary geography . In the Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Shankar V. Bhosale Page 185 alluring and frightening novel, ‘Paradise’, the maps provide the violent Geographic ’s. The setting of the novel is East Africa but the story is concerned with the ‘Arab Traders, experience of encountering the expansion of the European empires in Africa. The novel focuses on dark side of Africa
Keywords:Abdulrazak GurnahPost -colonialismGeo -historical ImaginingsDecentered SubjectivityViolence and Injustice. Imperial Geographyetc


