Reading the Other History a study of cultural memory in select native novels

Abstract

Renewed interest in land and its memories have led to the emergence of newlinenarratives that revamp identity and history from an aboriginal perspective. newlineLiterature here serves as a site of memory where facts and fiction contest, resisting newlinefurther untruths and appropriations. The novels selected unravel mysteries and newlinerediscover elided potentials of cultures, suppressed by colonial regimes. The thesis, newlineReading the Other History: A Study of Cultural Memory in Select Native newlineNovels, examines the contribution of cultural memory studies in highlighting newlinesubversion of history and memory. Though the novels selected are from diverse newlinetribal and cultural backgrounds a remarkable number of shared strategies in their newlinequest for identity and social belonging stimulate this study. The novels subvert newlinefixed object positions and relocate the members of these communities as subjects, newlinewho are culturally intelligible and socially sustainable. newline