This dissertation studies Esperanza Cordero’s search for a “self” that would establish herself as a writer. In her quest she found that she had to take some revolutionary steps to reach her goal. At the same time, she also ...

Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines, published in 1988, is a political novel that focuses mostly on nationalism, the meaninglessness of partition and the 1964 communal riots which occurred in Calcutta, Dhaka and Khulna. This ...