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Bapsi sidhwa postcolonialism

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Q. Various Political connotation in the novel *IceCandyMan*

Ice Candy Man as a Political novel: Ice Candy Man is the third novel of Bapsi Sidhwa. The novel has a theme of politics and she has presented the political and a narrative thread of her writing. In this novel one can notice the presence of the political figures like Mahatma Gandhi, Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru, Subhash Chandra Bose, Mohammad Ali Jinnah and Lord Mountbatten and several others.

This novel happens to be Bapsi Sidhwa's most popular novel among all her novels.

The present work of fiction was adopted for the cinematic representation titled as the '1947: Earth'. It is an attractive account of the violent racial religious clashes in Indian society in partition period.

The novel Ice Candy Man describes the traumatic anecdote of the partition days when sublime ideals of nationalism and patriotism were suddenly changed into communal thoughts and the biased views for each others.

This change in the philosophy of people resulted into unprecedented destruction, political absurdities and deranged social sensibilities.

Bapsi Sidhwa sensitively portrayed the political anxiety, politics of partition and social insecurity which was shared by all the divided people in the partition days. The incidents of the novel are a part of political game-plan of the politicians.

Ice Candy Man is a study of politics of minority complex which is the by-product of the partition because the partition of India created new minority communities in their own land. The novel Ice Candy Man is narrated from the perspectives of the child narrator of eight-year-old-Lenny, who belongs to the Parsee community of Lahore.

In this novel Sidhwa presents various shades and complexities related with a decision of political practicality through Lenny. Lenny, a child narrator looks at each characters belong to different community through the prism of her own Parsee sensitivity.

In the novel the disintegration of Ayah's circle symbolizes the disintegration and degeneration of society and members of Ayah's circle represent the different religions of the subcontinent.

As the novel progressed the people who thronged queen's park became aware of their religious identity and only sat with people of their own religion. It is only Ayah's circle that remains intact even when the political rumblings reached Lahore. However even ayah's allure and sensuousness can't keep the circle intact. In fact the friends she trusted become her assaulters in the end. This also shows the deterioration of the characters over different political ideologies.
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A House for Mr Biswas as a *Diasporic Novel*( Most repeated question)

*Diasporic Fiction*
Diaspora fiction s dwell on/focus on alienation, nostalgia, displacement, loneliness, assimilation, acculturation, and quest of identity, it also deals issues related to existential rootlessness or disintegration of cultures.

An individual has to relocate himself afresh on migration for which he has to go through atonement such as readjustment, adaptation, participation

When an individual migrate from one place to another, from one country to another, the borders change and the identity of an individual takes a new shape. A person who has migrated always desires to return to what has been left behind.

*Diaspora” (from the Greek word for “scattering”)* refers to the dispersion of a people from their homeland. A simple definition of diaspora literature, then, would be works that are written by authors who live outside their native land. The term identifies a work’s distinctive geographic origins.

HOUSE FOR MR BISWAS AS A DISPORIC NOVEL

• A House for Mr. Biswas is often referred as a
novel from the diasporic angle.
• When colonialism started, Indians were
transported from their homelands to different
countries in order to serve as laborers.
• They settled in those countries but the
memory of their homeland kept on haunting them

HOMELESSNESS/ ROOTLESSNESS
SEARCH FOR A HOME
SEARCH FOR IDENTITY

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Hagar Shipley
Character Analysis
Hagar Shipley is the novel’s protagonist and narrator. A ninety-year-old woman whose rapid physical and mental decline often sends her reeling backwards into memories of her youth in the fictional Manitoba prairie town of Manawaka, Hagar is a heavy, flatulent, raving mess of a woman who nonetheless clings to the small remaining scraps of agency over her own choices. At the start of the book, Hagar is living with her oldest son Marvin and his wife Doris, though she resents their company, the fact that they have moved into her home, and the concerned way they talk to and handle her. Hagar begins to suspect that Marvin and Doris want to be rid of her, and when she comes across an advertisement for a nursing home left out on the kitchen table, she knows her time is limited. Hagar takes one of her social security checks and runs away, boarding a bus bound for the coast. As she hides out in the coastal forests, she declines even further, and her moments of lucidity grow farther and farther apart as she reflects on her strict father’s dominion over her and her brothers’ childhoods, the end of her marriage, years ago, to the crass, coarse farmer Brampton Shipley, and the chaotic life and tragic death of her second, favorite son John. Hagar is eventually rescued and brought to a hospital, where she lives out her final days in a haze of stubborn resistance and, eventually, conscious attempts to overcome her own stubborn personality and finally give her family the kindness they have long deserved. Hagar’s life is a rich tapestry of indecision and wrong decisions, dependence and independence, as well as love, lust, and loss. Her complicated life is the basis for several of the novel’s major themes: womanhood, choices and identity, and the twinned love and resentment that often coexist within—and can even come to define—one’s life with one’s family

Characteristics of *Hagar's* Character in THE STONE ANGEL

➡️As a protagonist
➡️Egoistic
➡️Pride and Stubborness
➡️Lack of Emotion and Feeling
➡️Courageous
➡️Desire of Strength and Independence
➡️Realisation at the end ( comparison to stone Angel )

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