Open AccessThematic Voyage, Images and Symbols; Household Disagreement and Post-Colonial Situation in Upamanayu Chatterjee’s The Last Burden
Author(s) -
Ramen Goswami
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
international journal for research in applied science and engineering technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2321-9653
DOI - 10.22214/ijraset.2021.35157
Subject(s) - chatterjee , patriarchy , colonialism , indian english , indian literature , state (computer science) , history , middle class , sociology , literature , gender studies , art , bengali , law , political science , philosophy , linguistics , mathematics , archaeology , algorithm
Upamanayu Chatterjee is born in 1959 at Patna, Bihar. He is one of the original brilliant Indian writers of the modern generation. He is a commanding emergent voice in Indian postcolonial creative writing. He has written a handful of short stories and fictions. His English, August: An Indian story was first published in 1988 and reprinted in 2006. This is one of the significant urban Indian coming-of-age novel. His other novels include The Last Burden (1994), The Mammaries of the Welfare State (2000)- a sequel to The English August, Weight Loss (2006) , and Way to Go (2010)-a sequel to The Last Burden. Keywords: Burden, middle class family, portrays, patriarchy, emotions