Abstract
The article presents a discursive critique of misrepresentation of the
American and Indian geographies in the English fictional narratives
set during the times of anti-British revolutions in the respective
countries. Delimiting focus on Bernard Cornwell’s The Fort (2010)
and Louis Tracy’s The Red Year (1907), the researchers have explored
the colonial world contrived in the textual galaxy of the purposive
fabrications. Cornwell’s novel envisages the American locale in which
the apostles of the auspicious Empire have been shown fighting the
wild rebels in the wilderness. Whereas Tracy delineates the Indian
spatial setting in which the enlightenment project is being deterred by
the defiant natives. The exploration of the fictional world has been
theoretically facilitated by the postcolonial postulates vis-à-vis the
textual distortions of the geographical realities. The analysis of the
selected novels has evidenced the reductionist rhetoric of the English
writers who portray the colonial regions as the uninhabitable trenches
where civilizational light penetrates rarely and timidly. The novels
discursively evacuate the territories to pave the way for expansionism
and, also, conform to the broader disruptive colonial discourse that has
always been used to legitimize the colonial adventures.
Saleem Akhtar Khan, Muhammad Safeer Awan. (2018) Disruptive Colonial Discourse and Spatial Disorientations: Misrepresentation of the American and Indian Territories in the British Fictional Narratives of Wars of Independence, The Dialogue, Volume 13, Issue 4.
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