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,, Dr. 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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