Vol. 5 No. 2

1971: Fiction and History

Vikarun Nessa

pp. 5-10

Epic and Empire: Voices of Imperial Rhetoric in Francis Ledwidge and Wilfred Owen

Claudio Sansone

pp. 11-22

Queer Sexuality: A Critical Study of Karim Amir's Sex Life in The Buddha of Suburbia

Mir Mohammad Tonmoy

pp. 23-31

Dreams within Dream in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's Queen of Dreams: Psychoanalytic Approach as Interpretive Tool

Bir Singh Yadav

pp. 33-41

Brindavan: The Image of “Broken Homes, Shattered Hopes” in Indira Goswami's The Blue-Necked God

Neha Arora

pp. 42-51

Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist: A Critique of the Grand narrative of Globalization

Nitin Jarandikar, Shubhangi Jarandikar

pp. 52-57

Representation of Parsi Culture and Identity in Bapsi Sidhwa's The Crow Eaters

S G Puri

pp. 58-62

(Un) Silencing Chand in Heaven on Earth: A Study of Her Oppression and Revolt

Shivani Vashist

pp. 63-67

Kiran Desai's Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard: A Binding Imaginative Comic Tale of a World Gone Slightly Mad

Rooble Verma, Manoj Verma

pp. 68-74

Recreating the Self: A Study of Nancy Prince's A Narrative of the Life and Travels of Mrs. Nancy Prince and Carolyn Vine's Black and Abroad

Pronami Bhattacharyya

pp. 75-81

Is Family Relationship an Art?

Marie Evangeline H

pp. 82-85

Comparative Cultural Studies of Nascent Neocolonial Literatures

Anand Patil

pp. 86-98

Grand Narrative Rethought: A Postmodernist Reading of J.M. Coetzee's Foe

S.K. Nasim Ali

pp. 99-104

An Unaccustomed Return: A Critical Study into Diaspora with Special Reference to Jhumpa Lahiri's Two Short Stories Unaccustomed Earth and Hell-Heaven

Kousik Adhikari

pp. 105-110

Portrayal of The Scattered: Diasporic Reading of Caryl Phillips's Crossing The River

Gils M. George, T. Deivasigamani

pp. 111-116

Postmodernist way of Narration: Relevance of Letter Series in Amitav Ghosh's River of Smoke

Meenakshi De

pp. 117-121

Gender and Sexuality in Githa Hariharan's The Thousand Faces of Night

Nirmala Varghese

pp. 122-129

Self-reflexivity in Postmodern Theatre: A reading of Arthur Kopit's Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad

Antara Choudhury

pp. 130-137

Estranged Identity: The Problem of Hindu Widows in Indira Goswami's Nilakantha Braja

Ravi Bhushan

pp. 138-141

The Theme of Plurality in Rushdie's The Enchantress of Florence

Punyajit Gupta, Shri Krishan Rai

pp. 142-147

Discourse of Dispossession in Dayamayeer Katha

Kaustav Chakraborty

pp. 148-153

Thematic Concerns in Mulk Raj Anand's The Lost Child and Other Stories

Anand Atikant

pp. 154-158

Politics of Gender and Power in Vijay Tendulkar's Kamala and Mahesh Dattani's Seven Steps around the Fire

Santosh Kumar Sonker

pp. 159-165

Predicament of Women in Bharati Mukherjee's Miss New India H.N. Prasad 166 Kamala Markandaya's The Coffer Dams: A Tussle between Technology and Nature Supriya 171 Khuswant Singh: The Absolute Secularist

Anurag Bihari

pp. 178-182

Cultural Marginality and its Psycho-Social Impact on Children in the Fictional Works of Toni Morrison

Abhilasha

pp. 183-189

Attitude is Every Thing

N D Dani

pp. 199-201

Labyrinth: Volume-5, No.2 April-2014 Abstract: Keywords: 1971: Fiction and History Vikarun Nessa Freedom is coveted, only when it is fought for. It is this specific reason which makes Bangladeshi Liberation war glorious for people of Bangladesh. It needs to be stated that, Bangladesh's road to independence was traumatic but priceless. Even though, everyone wants to be free and Bangladesh was united in its struggle for independence, yet in fiction and history reaction towards independence has differed. This article aims to show the different reactions or perspective towards Liberation war of Bangladesh through the two primary texts; 1971 and After, which is a small anthology of short stories written about or the aftermath of Liberation war and Ekattorer Chithi,(Letters of 1971) a factual account of Liberation war, which is a collection of letters written by freedom fighters and their families. The short stories of 1971 and After and letters from Ekattorer Chithi show different perspectives or point of views towards Liberation war; depending on the author's and writer's sensibilities and sympathies. This article's aim is to create a bridge between fiction and history and show how Bangladesh's Liberation war got documented in them Fiction, History, Liberation, Perspective I Any fictional account of war is always two fold; one from the perspective of the oppressors and another from the perspective of the oppressed Therefore, for Bangladeshi people the war of 1971 was a fight for independence, for the then West Pakistani rulers it was a 'civil war' or a 'mutiny' that needed to be pacified. The stories of this article though are fictional tales of this 'brutish' pacification yet, they are accounted for in the historical document Ekattorer Chithi, (Letters of 1971) which gives the stories credibility. In some stories victory is celebrated while in others mourning for loss of lives and dignity becomes prominent. But the most important purpose these short stories serve is; they document the history of Bangladeshi Liberation war in a fictional yet genuine way. On the other hand, Ekattorer Chithi, is a factual account that tells the tale of Bangladesh's road to freedom. It is also a testimony of or back up for this article's fictional narratives II This article follows the basic critical concepts of the Chicago School of New Criticism in the examination of the social order and the realism of the subjective experience in and through narrative. The aim of this method is total objectivity and emphasis on having strong evidence for critical appreciation. As mentioned before, the stories of 1971 and After, narrate the events of liberation war from different points of view. The first story that this article explicates is Nineteen Seventy

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