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International Journal of English Literature and Culture Vol. 2(8), pp. 152-156, August, 2014 ISSN: 2360-7831 DOI: 10.14662/IJELC2014.042 Review Riot: A Novel; A Postmodern Narrative
Dr. Diksha Sharma
Assistant Professor, School of Behavioural Sciences and Business Studies, Thapar University, Patiala. E-Mail; dikshapuneetsharma@gmail.com, E - mail: diksha.sharma@thapar.edu
Accepted 24 August 2014
Devoid of a
circumscribed landscape of its own postmodern fiction is rather fluid
and unstable enhancing its exuberant and experimental nature, and a
large segment of contemporary fiction is characterized by its
attributes. Having entered the cultural discourse the pluralistic and
inconclusive line of thought and attitude, associated with postmodernism
has further problematized and intensified the ambiguity associated with
it. The present article is an attempt to analyze and highlight how
Tharoor’s inconclusive and pluralistic approach associated with
postmodernism, has problematized both the thematic as well as the
technical aspects of the narrative of his book Riot: A Novel. The
ingenuity and the indeterminacy of the style adopted by the author, and
its correlation with the plurality of life that articulates its varied
perceptions--discussed both in isolation as well as in cohesion with the
text -- establish Riot as an exemplum of the fluidity and the ambiguity
characterizing the frail margins of postmodern fiction.
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