A Critical Analysis Of Literary Styles, Forms, And Colonial Discourse In Early 19th-Century English Indian Writing
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In this study the literary styles, forms, and colonial discourse are critically analyzed as the factors which influenced the English Indian writing in the early nineteenth century. It examines how the colonial education system and the influence of western literary traditions caused the Indian writers to borrow European literary genres but merge and incorporate local cultural motifs and social issues. Social essays, the travel sketches, autobiographical narratives, poetry and early fiction emerged as significant instruments in the reformist expression and cultural reflection. The paper also examines the influence of the colonial discourse in creating the representations of the Indian society using the binaries of modern/traditional and rational/superstitious and writers also bargained and opposed those structures. Early English Indian literature, through the stylistic hybridity and thematic accommodation, turned out to be a site of cultural mediation and identity creation. The conclusion of the paper is that this corpus writing was one big transitional stage that paved the way to subsequent nationalist, and postcolonial traditions in Indian English literature.
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