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Narrative Context Of The Novel 'The Hungry Tide'

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Narrative Context: The Study
Linguistically speaking, The Hungry Tide is a very interesting study of living dialectical varieties. The narrative backdrop of the novel- The Sunderbanislands provide a kind of linguistic utopia as a large variety of languages and dialects co-exist in harmony here, just as nature and humans are expected to be. The Tide country is a haven for different tides of languages that come and go in the form of “The Ebb: Bhata” and “The Flood: Jowar” which are titles of the two parts of the novel as well. So language, society and culture become the watchwords here in this interesting interplay of Globalisation and the entire world becomes a type of global village-‘vasudhevkutumbkam’. Many strict boundaries start dissolving, major of them being the linguistic and cultural boundaries. As people come closer to each other and start settling in places away from their places, a very unique kind …show more content…

So, the focus has shifted in the multifiction inter-textual devices that historical novel uses to explore the underlying ideology and episteme. Post structuralism debates with a keen concern the relationship between historical and literary discourse. The Hungry Tide too as a text which brings the Morichjhapi incident to life may be cited as a re-writing of history. In ‘Towards a Natural Narratology’, MonikaFludernik says that the writing of history usually emerges because of two reasons:
“...the necessity of fixing in writing what is fast receding from common memory; and the conscious interpretation of past events in the light of present day concerns. Such present-day concerns may be didactic, and it is here that the functions of historical writing overlap with those of fiction..."

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