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Ethnic Awareness in Vikram Seth's 'A Suitable Boy' Quest Journals Journal of Research in Humanities and Social Science Volume 9 ~ Issue 5 (2021)pp: 14-19 ISSN(Online):2321-9467 www.questjournals.org Research Paper Ethnic Awareness in Vikram Seth’s ‘A Suitable Boy’ Mrityunjoy Sing M.A. in English & SET Qualified, WB. ABSTRACT: There has been quite a lot of work in the studies of Language in relation to the Society explaining how speakers are gentle in behaviour to one another in what they say and do, and how they try to mitigate impolite behaviour linguistically in order to uphold social aspect. As literature, in many ways, reflects societies, the investigation of principles of politeness in literary discourse can tell us a lot about language, society, culture and thought and thereby can uncover new meanings, implications, and insights into the nature of literary communication that are generally not explained through a strictly traditional analysis. Based on the premise of who speaks; to whom; when; where; how; and why in a variety of contexts, including social contexts, the present paper examines some supra-sentential stretches of dialogic discourse in diverse inter-personal relationships from Vikram Seth’s magnum opus A Suitable Boy in the light of Brown and Levinson’s (1987) Face Saving view of Politeness. Various issues concerning face management related to personal motives, solidarity principle, power principle, etc. that are opened up through the analysis of the conversational behaviours of characters and the governing force for their choices of one strategy over others within the framework of face-saving politeness can help us better account for the aspects concerning the construction and performance of various personalities and identities— particularly through the inferences generating about the changes in one’s character in different inter-personal and socio-cultural contexts. Ethnic Awareness refers to one's sense of belonging to an ethnic group and the part of one's thinking perceptions, feelings, and behaviour that is due to ethnic group membership. Ethnicity refers to shared cultural characteristics such as language, ancestry, practices, and beliefs. Furthermore, the application of pragmatic interpretative strategies in the literary studies would also produce multi-level discussions and interpretations of literary texts which may help heighten literary appreciation. KEY WORDS: Ethnic, Ethnicity, inquisitive, Ukrainian, post-partition, anglicized, and entertainment. Received 26 April, 2021; Revised: 08 May, 2021; Accepted 10 May, 2021 © The author(s) 2021. Published with open access at www.questjournals.org I. INTRODUCTION: Vikram Seth is a prolific post- independence novelist of global status. He has written several novels and poetry. He was born on 20th June 1952 in Kolkata, west Bengal. His father was Premnath Seth and his mother Leila Seth, a barrister by training. Seth has written From Heaven’s Lake, a travel book about china, and two collections of poems – The Humble Administrator’s Gardenand All You Who Sleep Tonight and the two fables. The Golden Gate (1986) is a novel in verse consisting of 596 sonnets. Then, he wrote A Suitable Boy (1994) is his magnum opus. He stunned the literary world with his novel An Equal Music (1999). Vikram Seth created history in more than one way. He is the first Indian English novelist to write a novel entitled The Golden Gatein verse, for which he won the Sahitya Academy Award for the year 1988. Again he is the first Indian English novelist to get a fabulous amount of rupees two crores as advance for this epoch-making novel A Suitable Boy. Generally, the readers’ judgment is based on anecdotal references in the story and hence it tends to become tentative. It is against this backdrop that the present paper attempts to show as to how the face-saving model of politeness, as proposed by Brown and Levinson (1987), could be used to uncover real meanings of character utterances through the marked culture-specific discourse features in conversational exchanges regulated by the characters’ personal motives and their respective milieus. This may help the readers to form better judgments related to the development of different aspects of personalities of characters through the novel. The fundamental assumptions of this face-saving view of Brown and Levinson are combined with Goffman’s (1967; 1972) concept of ‘face’ i.e. an individual’s publically manifest self-esteem. Face is *Corresponding Author: Mrityunjoy Sing 14 | Page Ethnic Awareness in Vikram Seth’s ‘A Suitable Boy’ something that is emotionally invested by every competent member of a society and that can be lost, maintained, or enhanced, and must be constantly attended to in an interaction. Such cooperation is based on mutual vulnerability of face. Put another way, normally, everyone’s face depends on everyone else’s is being maintained. Since people can be expected to defend their faces if threatened, and in defending their own faces, also to threaten others’ face. The notion of face reflects two related aspects: a) Negative Face: It refers to the basic claim to territories, personal preserves, and rights to non- distraction, i.e. freedom of action and freedom from imposition. b) Positive Face: It is related to the positive consistent self-image or personality claimed by interactants which certainly includes the desire that this self-image be appreciated, understood, ratified, approved of, liked or admired The two aspects can be treated as basic wants which every member knows and every member desires and it is in the interest of every member to partially satisfy them. Negative face wants are related to the politeness of non-imposition whereas positive face wants are concerned with the reduction of person’s self- image or personality directed towards the other person. Although the content of face will differ in different cultures, the mutual knowledge of members’ public self-image or face and the social necessity to orient oneself to it in interaction are universal. Normally, the respect for face is treated as norms or values but not as an unquestionable one. Face can be, and routinely is, ignored in cases of social breakdown or effrontery and also in situations of urgent cooperation and emergency. In any particular society one may expect the notion of face to be culturally highly elaborative. This core concept of ‘face’ is subject to cultural specifications of many sorts, e.g. what kinds of acts threaten face; what sorts of person have special rights to face protection; what kinds of personal style are specially appreciated. On the other hand, notions of face naturally link up to some of the most fundamental cultural ideas about the nature of social persona, honour and virtue, shame and redemption and thus to religious concepts. But, despite all rich elaborations, the core ideas in the notion of face have a striking familiarity. What is Ethnic Awareness? Ethnic Awareness is relating to or characteristic of a human group having racial, religious, linguistic, and certain other traits in common. It is also relating to the classification of mankind into groups, esp. on the basis of racial characteristics. Further it is denoting or deriving from the cultural traditions of a group of people. Sense of Ethnic Awareness: Ethnic awareness is proposed to be the foundation for ethnic identity that typically emerges in early adolescence. Ethnic awareness includes three distinct dimensions: sense of belonging, sense of community, and sense of place within the context of their ethnic group. There has been little investigation of children’s emerging sense of ethnic awareness during the preschool year when children’s social-cognitive abilities to recognize differences and similarities among ethnic groups emerge. Entry into preschool provides children with the opportunities to interact and develop relationships with peers. These relationships may help children to learn more about and internalize their sense of ethnic awareness. Reciprocally, children’s sense of ethnic awareness may contribute to the frequency of their peer interactions. How children’s emerging sense of ethnic awareness is associated with the frequency of their peer interactions is understudied in early childhood. Using a sample of 231 low-income, ethnically diverse families in Western Canada, the current study tested three theoretically guided models to examine how children’s emerging sense of ethnic awareness and peer interactions (positive peer interactions and peer conflict) are associated across a preschool year. The awareness- driven model tested whether children’s sense of ethnic awareness contributes to prospective frequency of peer interactions. The peer-driven model tested whether peer interactions contribute to prospective proficiency of sense of ethnic awareness. The transactional model tested whether sense of ethnic awareness and peer interactions were reciprocally related. Ethnicity and immigration status were tested as moderators of the associations between children’s sense of ethnic awareness and peer interactions. The awareness-driven model fit the data best for positive peer interactions whereas the peer-driven model fit the data best for peer conflict. The transactional model did not provide a better fit to the data. Ethnicity and immigration status did not moderate these associations. Children who had a more proficient sense of ethnic awareness had more frequent positive peer interactions at the end of the school year. Alternatively, children who had more frequent peer conflict had a less proficient sense of ethnic awareness at the end of the school year. One of the biggest traps when adapting a literary novel to screen is the director’s temptation to include just about everything in the text. Mira Nair’s “A Suitable Boy,” based on Vikram Seth’s 1993 1300-page magnum opus, falls precisely into this trap. Set in the fictional university town of Brahmpur in 1951, four years after the British left the partitioned subcontinent, the series tries exploring the sense of freedom emerging at the political, social and personal levels.
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