Time and space in The Shadow Lines

Assignment:

Assignment paper: 2

Topic: Time and space in The Shadow Lines

Student name: Bhatt Dhara

Roll no.: 02

Paper no.: 2979:VII-EC-202

Sem.:2

Batch:2011

Submitted to: Devershi Mehta

Department of English

Time and space in The Shadow Lines

     Preface

The shadow Lines is a stunning book –amusing, sad, wise and international in scope. It chronicles the story of two familiar, one in Calcutta London from the outbreak of world War ii to modern times.Inter-alia, The shadow Lines is also a book about the prodigious imagination of its narrator who is the chronicler of the lives around him and presents the events with amazing insight, sometimes skipping from city to city in the same breaths and recreating events that happened before he was born with marvelous accuracy and about the lines and borders that are being drawn world over to divided and isolate one man from the other .

      One of the chief features of The Shadow Lines is that it is not written sequentially. The novel moves back and forth with little regard to the chronology of times and distance.

       In this novel the shadow Lines is a highly invocation, complex and celebrated novel of Amitav Gosh in the 1988, it received the following year not only not only literary critics but also some noted literature have acclaimed it for what it has been able to achieve as a work of art .Its focus is a fact of history ,the post partition scenario of violence;butist overall form is a subtle interweaving of fact ,fiction and reminiscence.

It is a novel in which Amitav Ghosh has been able to realize conception through an art form which is cohesive .However, it   remains somewhat inaccessible to some readers; they are particularly, mystified by its non linear mode .The volume of critical essays on the shadow Lines is being presented in hope that it will enable the reader to gain on insight into the meaning and structure of insight into the meaning and structure of the novel.

        In the first part of the book, the contributory bring out the various aspects of the novel.

        In the second part of his essays which look at the novel form some current critical perspective feminist, post colonial and historicist but the emphasis of these essays in upon practice and not theory .the idea is that the reader learns about a specific approach by seeing it applied to the shadow Lines .The Third has a single but significant essay The shadow Lines in context which related the novel to Ghosh other works ,both fiction and nonfiction.

       Content                 

Part one

1 the shadow lines as a memory novel

    Manuela saxena

2 The narrator and the chronicling of self in The shadow Lines.

      Premindha Bannejee

4 Nation as Identity in The shadow Lines

Alta kumara

         Amitav Ghosh’s the shadow lines more important of time and space. Thus The poet says “the shadow Lines “ was memrory novel.

       Time and space

The shadow lines is a challenge to be overcome by the use of imagination and desire until space melts time and space coalesce in a seamless continuity. Both Triadic and the narrator are engaged in the creation of the world as it comes alive to them or to their powerful imagination .Tribe’s idea of romantic love in place without history, without a past is magnificent .It is this continuation that his ideal becomes the story of man who fell in love with a women across of the sacs.                  

“The formal logic of the clock “

In “shadow lines” first time and space here we can say that important of time and place.

Distance and time are shadows in the novel therefore illusory .Time and distance have been blended harmoniously and does not cause fiction .These two challenge in the novel to be overcome by reader’s fine since of imagination like that of narrator’s Triadic had told him of the desire that could carry one beyond the limits accommodate the happenings of the shadow Lines.

 The story in the shadow lines primarily runs in flashback though there are interruption at times .It covers the two extreme points on the globe, Calcutta and London and covers up the story of two families of close acquaintance.

Triadic gets his initial memories of war time the place again but the experience and the stories the he pulled out there served as a reservoir for a long time to come and he entertains the narrator especially ,with them and they become the magical talismans for him to be endowed with realize later. The flash breaks now and then to give an insight the lives of characters. the novel trotting be sahib,treawesen.IIa or Maya devi and such distance had got to be covered fast or else it would pose a hardtop the smooth sailing of the plot.

 The narrator had described all the events in fact narrated the whole story in year’s time when he had gone to England or a year’s research to collection material from India office liberty where all the colonial records were kept for the PhD thesis on the textile trade between India and England 19^th century.

Glimpses of three generations of princes,Tha’mma nationalists Zeal ,shippers of second world war ,death of triadic in Dhaka and Calcutta ,Mu-i-Mubarak  episode in Kashmir all these shreds are blended amicably without giving a feeling of bumpy ride .And this has been possible only been so closely interwoven discarded at times in the novel that seem to be seamless continuity.

    Sometimes ago there was article in The Indian Expresses called

“Crossing all boundaries the end of geography “

In this quote highghtened all the boundaries of imagination, time, place memory, dream all the aspects are highly used by poets.

 In shadow lines exist all the boundaries of human to reach in Amitav Ghost most described time and space. In the shadow Lines, Amitav Ghosh says that this novel was one way

         “Recollection of his memory”

The words lines and borers something used limitation of human mind Amitav Ghosh used most of philosophical ideas in this novel. In novel suggest Diasporas feeling of the novel.

The narrator’s knowledge of war time London was not gained from books but from it Uncle Tribe’s experience, Tridib taught him how to use his imagination.

Removal of the boundaries or the bordered so that the earth becomes but one country and mankind its citizen or to talk In more practical terms ,formation of world government or at least peaceful co-existence without losing the culture identity seems to be the message of the shadow lines.