A Study Of Another Gulmohar Tree As Writing Back To The Empire: A Literary And Linguistic Analysis.

Human subconscious is silent but active contributor in the process of communication. Long term memories influence the thought processing in the contemporary cognitive as well as psychological orientation for transmission or reception of ideas. Same is reflected in the literature produced by creative human minds. The sole objective of this research is to examine the art of writing back to the empire in non-native English postcolonial literary writings. In this regard, novel, Another Gulmohar Tree has been targeted and analyzed through Bhabha’s (1994) notions of ambivalence and unhomeliness. The theory presented by Bhabha (1994) in his book The Location of Culture provides the model on which this research is framed. In particular, Bhabha’s concept of hybridity has been taken as an analytical framework for this study. This bidirectional concept of ambivalence and unhomeliness facilitates in understanding the experiences of two major characters, Usman and Lydia in Another Gulmohar Tree. The study concludes that the novel is a true example of writing back to the empire and it is explicitly reflected in the major characters through two dominant themes of ambivalence and homeliness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]