‘VIA BYPASS’: HISTORY, FICTION AND METAFICTION IN ALKA SARAOGI’S KALIKATHA: VIA BYPASS (1998)
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https://doi.org/10.29121/shodhkosh.v2.i2.2021.5393Keywords:
History, Biography, Autobiography, Marwaris, Calcutta, Metafiction, TranslationAbstract [English]
In her debut novel Kalikatha: Via Bypass, Alka Saraogi takes the reader on a journey of interwoven narratives of Kishore Babu, the Marwari community, the city of Calcutta and colonial India. Through a mix of historical, fictional and metafictional narratives, she portrays a complex view of the past, mingled with interventions from the present. This paper examines this mix and presents the nexus between the various elements of storytelling in this path-breaking post-colonial novel.
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