POSTCOLONIAL ELEMENTS IN "THE SHADOW LINES'' BY AMITAV GHOSH
POSTCOLONIAL ELEMENTS IN "THE SHADOW LINES'' BY AMITAV GHOSH " The Shadow Lines '', published in 1988 and written by Amitav Ghosh , extensively incorporates the qualities of the postcolonial elements . The novel focuses on political instability , the aftermath of immigration , cultural detachment , societal unrest , religious conflict , quest for identities and more like them . The novelist , through this novel , has successfully explored not only the colonial issues imposed on society by the force of time and history but also about the unwanted separation of people from each other . However , the postcolonial elements interwoven in the novel are sequentially upheld below : (i) Obscurity : A colonizer intentionally or unintentionally tries to remain unseen and unrecognised . Likewise , the narrator of this novel attempts to remain unnamed till the very end of the story . The writer has kept t...