단절된 역사, 지속적 기억: 아미타브 고쉬(Amitav Ghosh)의 『그림자 선』(The Shadow Lines)을 중심으로
The Continuity of Memory and the Discontinuity of History in Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines
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This paper examines the inextricable relationship between memory and history focusing on Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines. As one of the acclaimed Indian-English writers, Ghosh has paid attention to the role and significance of memory in recuperating forgotten events that are marginalized or occluded in a formal history. Drawing on the recent discourse of memory that claims its potentiality as alternative historiographies, this paper specifically deals with the continuity of memory challenging the discontinuity of the official history. While the formal history creates a great chasm between the past, present, and future, memory underscores the consistency of times: the past and present are integrated in the continuous flow of memory. Set against historical events such as the Indian Partition and World War II, this novel follows a nameless narrator’s memories encompassing the stories of his family in India and the Prices in London. Throwing the rhetorical questions of “Don’t you remember?” and “How can anyone divide a memory?” throughout the novel, Ghosh unravels the true story of the mysterious death of the narrator’s uncle Tridib and ultimately reveals the tragic history of the Indian Partition ignored and silenced for decades.
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This paper examines the inextricable relationship between memory and history focusing on Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines. As one of the acclaimed Indian-English writers, Ghosh has paid attention to the role and significance of memory in recuperating forgotten events that are marginalized or occluded in a formal history. Drawing on the recent discourse of memory that claims its potentiality as alternative historiographies, this paper specifically deals with the continuity of memory challenging the discontinuity of the official history. While the formal history creates a great chasm between the past, present, and future, memory underscores the consistency of times: the past and present are integrated in the continuous flow of memory. Set against historical events such as the Indian Partition and World War II, this novel follows a nameless narrator’s memories encompassing the stories of his family in India and the Prices in London. Throwing the rhetorical questions of “Don’t you remember?” and “How can anyone divide a memory?” throughout the novel, Ghosh unravels the true story of the mysterious death of the narrator’s uncle Tridib and ultimately reveals the tragic history of the Indian Partition ignored and silenced for decades.
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