Poetics of Conflict in Amit Chaudhuri’s A New World
Journal Title: Notions A Journal of English Literature - Year 2017, Vol 0, Issue 4
Abstract
The present paper deals with the conflicts of change and transition in relation to the family, the middle-classes, and economic changes affecting employment and lifestyle, which are the hallmarks of the Indian society and culture. The novel A New World is all about the bond between children and parents. The plot of the novel is simple - A third-world cosmopolitan, surviving in America, returns to India with his young son and spends his vacation with his parents who live humbly in retirement in Calcutta and again return back to America. The story element in the novel is thin; it can be called one, of Jayojit who comes to Calcutta in April with his son to stay with his parents in order to recover from the pain of his divorce from his wife, Amala. That he likes the city is far from truth. It is possible only through an analysis of the worldliness of this novel, and through connection to other novels in terms of style and themes to probe how the family and the home are significant in representing middle-class values. As a whole during times of uncertainty and change, the form and the textual feedback of the novel exhibits the indecision of the ‘old’ middle-class who seem to see themselves as sombre and serious, and yet are critical of the ‘new’ middle-class who are perceived as self-made people.
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Dr. A. Selvaraj, M. V. Sivakumar
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