Parvin Sultana
Assistant Professor, P.B. College, Gauripur, Assam, India.
10.21659/9788197513022.07Abstract
This paper examines Janice Pariat’s Everything the Light Touches (2022) as a complex meditation on space, memory, and decolonial resistance. It analyses the novel’s nonlinear narrative and its shifting portrayals of urban and natural landscapes and argues that Pariat constructs what Doreen Massey terms a “thrown-togetherness” of place. Her articulation of space is chaotic yet generative, marked by vitality and multiplicity. The study explores how characters inhabit postcolonial terrains through practices such as walking and dwelling at the margins, and how these acts become modes of negotiating identity. It also contends that Pariat’s fragmented storytelling mirrors the fractured condition of postcolonial subjectivity. Thus, it also opens pathways to alternative epistemologies and Indigenous knowledge systems.
Keywords: postcolonial literature, spatial theory, decolonial ecology, Indigenous epistemology, walking, place-making.
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Urban Imaginaries and Indian Cities in Literature
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Urban Imaginaries and Indian Cities in Literature: An Introduction
Dr. Neethu P Antony and Dr. Arpana Venu
Olivia Joseph
Multilingual Metropolis: The Politics of Language and Belonging in Guwahati Through Sheelabhadra’s Fiction
Sangeeta Bhagawati
Spatial (re)orientations and Epic structures of the urban in Fareeda Mehta’s Kali Salwaar
Elroy Pinto
Between Tramline and Traffic Jam: Mapping Indian City through Satyajit Ray’s Mahanagar and Anurag Basu’s Life in a…Metro
Trisha Sengupta & Dr. Sanghamitra Baladhikari
Reimagining Kolkata: Subaltern Narratives and the Colonial Urban Dystopia in Kallol Magazine’s Literature
Nandini Gayen
Walking, Writing and Resisting the City: Spatial Tactics and Postcolonial Reimaginings in Janice Pariat’s Everything the Light Touches
Parvin Sultana
Mimesis, Montage and Mapping: A Spatial Analysis of Gangtok City Scapes in the Select Works of Satyajit Ray and Prajwal Parajuly
Dr. Sudakshina Bhattacharya, Dr. Sulagna Mohanty, and Dr. Ankusha Bandyopadhyay
