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2018 Sidhu Inder 0740856 Et This electronic thesis or dissertation has been downloaded from the King’s Research Portal at https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/ The Global Turn Representations of the Self in South Asian and African Anglophone Literatures in the Colonial and Postcolonial Eras Sidhu, Inder Awarding institution: King's College London The copyright of this thesis rests with the author and no quotation from it or information derived from it may be published without proper acknowledgement. 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Take down policy If you believe that this document breaches copyright please contact [email protected] providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediately and investigate your claim. Download date: 30. Sep. 2021 Department of English King’s College London THE GLOBAL TURN: REPRESENTATIONS OF THE SELF IN SOUTH ASIAN AND AFRICAN ANGLOPHONE LITERATURES IN THE COLONIAL AND POSTCOLONIAL ERAS Submitted for Degree of PhD Inder Sidhu 2017 ABSTRACT Building on interdisciplinary exchanges between postcolonial cultural theory and literary criticism, this thesis examines the idea of self in context of intercultural encounter, literary hybridity and globalization. The project locates and analyzes self in Anglophone literatures emerging from British colonies in Africa and the suBcontinent through the critical lens of dialogical self theory, Borrowed from the social sciences, and textual analysis of writers’ creative narrative strategies. The project examines and interrogates four pairs of texts over the colonial, postwar and post-9/11 eras in order to delineate different strategies of selfhood across four diverse fields of literature: autoBiographical life writing, folk anthology, metaphysical faBulism, and contemporary realism. The eight texts under consideration, Olaudah EQuiano’s The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (1794) alongside Sake Dean Mahomet’s The Travels of Dean Mahomet (1794), Henry Callaway’s Nursery Tales, Traditions and Histories of the Zulus (1868) and R.C. Temple’s The Legends of the Punjab (1884-1900), Amos Tutuola’s The Palm-Wine Drinkard (1952) and G.V. Desani’s All About H. Hatterr (1972), Tsitsi Dangarembga’s The Book of Not (2011) and Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger (2008), are organized under these generic headings and have been arranged chronologically. Foremost a literary undertaking, the project engages the critical perspectives outlined in Jane Hiddlestone’s introduction to Postcolonial Poetics: Genre and Form and seeks to ‘Bring littérarité [literariness] to the fore’ with a focus on ‘the specific mechanics of particular texts and genres, and on the ways in which the experience of colonialism has triggered a range of innovative forms of literary creation in response.’ The central purpose of this study responds to this renewed emphasis on the narrative strategies and creative choices involved in a literary construction of self. Threaded through this investigation is the idea of globalization, or the intensification of intercultural and dialogic complexity over time. The thesis couches its literary analysis within the framework of dialogical self theory, the imagining, expression and representation of selfhood through dialogic processes and interactions within a text. TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER 1: Introduction — …………2 CHAPTER 2: Negotiating Difference — Positioning the Self in Sake Dean Mahomet’s The Travels of Dean Mahomet, a Native of Patna in Bengal, Through Several Parts of India, While in the Service of the Honourable the East India Company (1794) and Olaudah EQuiano’s The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, The African (1789) — …………33 CHAPTER 3: Importing Knowledge and Theory — The Authorial Self and the Expert Position in Henry Callaway’s Nursery Tales, Traditions, and Histories of the Zulu (1868) and R. C. Temple’s Legends of the Punjab (1884-1900) — …………94 CHAPTER 4: The DivisiBle Self — Global-Local Journeys in G.V. Desani’s All About H. Hatterr (1948) and Amos Tutuola’s The Palm-Wine Drinkard (1952) — …………152 CHAPTER 5: Talking Back — The Uncertain Self and Counter-Narratives in Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger (2008) and Tsitsi Dangarembga’s The Book of Not (2006) — …………202 CHAPTER 6: Conclusion — …………237 BIBLIOGRAPHY — …………242 2 Chapter 1: Introduction Close Encounters — The Self, Dialogism and Literariness. Universal language, mores and communication are basic needs. This is the message of the practical East. The basic needs will make the brotherhood of man possible. Everything else has failed. To begin with, I may confide, I felt morally obliged to pursue this matter of writing this Critique. It was […] a moral imperative. G.V. Desani, All About H. Hatterr1 The idea of self in postcolonial criticism connotes a range of suBjectivities, voices and experiences across time and geographies. In his conclusion to Black Skin, White Masks, Frantz Fanon writes, It is through the effort to recapture the self and to scrutinize the self, it is through the lasting tension of their freedom that men will Be aBle to create the ideal conditions of existence for a human world. 2 Fanon’s discussion of how colonial categories of race disrupt Black suBjectivity and selfhood reach a crescendo as he agitates for new re-imaginings of self in resistance to structural oppression. In this passage, he descriBes self in terms of creative possiBility and the (re)definition of individual suBjectivity amidst discursive systems of exclusion and marginalization. Fanon’s conceptualization of self and identity as sites of racial, economic 1 G.V. Desani, All About H. Hatterr, (Bungay: Penguin, 1972), 298 and 314. 2 Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks (London: Pluto Press, 2008), 181. 3 and political negotiation — suBjectivities defined By others, defined against By others, potentially re-constructed and redefined by the individual — are reiterated in Edward Said’s Orientalism and his theorization of the self-other dichotomy. Just as Fanon argues that the notion of a ‘civilized’ white identity is constructed against the idea of the Negro ‘savage,’ Said outlines how the West came to define itself against the ‘contrasting image, idea, personality, experience’ of the Oriental other3 in an oppositional framework of self- representation. The idea of the self is deeply enmeshed within these examples of postcolonial cultural theory, representing a range of positions from alterity and suBjugation to agency and self-determination. Contemporary literary scholarship has often looked to these postcolonial theorists in order to re-situate self as an avatar of cultural identity and to unpack the intercultural encounters that shape it.4 Building on these interdisciplinary exchanges, this thesis returns to the idea of self in context of literature and narrative, examining its relationships with intercultural encounter, literary hybridity and globalization. The project locates and 3 Edward Said, Orientalism (London: Penguin, 2008), 2-3. 4 For instance: Ana Mª Manzanas, ‘Self and Nation in Franklin’s Autobiography and Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior,’ Selves in Dialogue: A Transethnic Approach to American Life Writing, ed. by Begoña Simal (New York: Rodopi, 2011) 35-63, draws on Homi BhaBha’s Nation and Narration (1990) to develop a ‘self/nation’ framework illustrating how Franklin and Kingston ‘inscriBe themselves into ‘the narration of the nation’ through the wide gateway of autobiography’ (35-36); Justine Baillie ‘From Margin to Centre: Postcolonial Identities and Barack OBama's Dreams from My Father,’ Life Writing, 8.3 (2011), 317-329, argues ‘the postcolonial life writer has the responsibility of representing a collective, communal or group identity’ (320); Bojana Coulibaly ‘(Re)Defining the Self through Trauma in West African Postcolonial Short Fiction,’ The Critical Imagination in African Literature, ed. by Maik Nwosu and Obiwu (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2015), 94-109, suggests ‘protagonists as represented in contemporary African short fiction illustrates a diasporic self still highly characterized By traditional experience and homeland culture’ (104). 4 analyzes self in Anglophone literatures emerging from British colonies in Africa and the suBcontinent through the critical lens of dialogical self theory, Borrowed from the social sciences, and textual analysis of writers’ creative narrative strategies. Foremost a literary undertaking, the project engages the critical perspectives outlined in Jane Hiddlestone’s introduction to Postcolonial Poetics: Genre and Form and seeks to ‘Bring littérarité [literariness] to the fore’5 with a focus on ‘the specific mechanics of particular texts and genres, and on the ways in which the experience of colonialism has triggered a range of innovative forms
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