Story-within-story in Githa Hariharan’s Fiction
Journal Title: Notions A Journal of English Literature - Year 2017, Vol 0, Issue 2
Abstract
The present article humbly seeks to examine as to how deftly the ‘story-within-story’- tool finds prominently its way ahead in Githa Hariharan’s fiction and lets the author glide through the plethora of her intents and motives. Writers, they say, are the unacknowledged legislators of the world; and the treasure-house of their art, in terms of theme and narrative techniques, hail to impress the reader in more than one way. As we sail through Hariharan’s fiction, one finds her writing honing step by step into further refinement acquiring a pleasing voluptuousness that is eventually found suited to unravel the stuff of dreams. Stylistic changes are part and parcel of anyone’s writing; but there is something that remains unchanged in Hariharan’s fiction throughout: her preoccupation with storytelling that turns her eventually to the mother of storytellers. The device, story-within-stories, is not at all a tool invented by her; it is rather so that the dexterous and powerful strokes by her pen storm through, leaving indelible marks for the posterity enabling thus to transform storytelling – of the story-within-story variety – to the art that it is; reshaping and deconstructing the whole history of traditional tales picked from different parts of the world.
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Dr. Pawan Kumar
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