Colonialism And Colonialism In Disgrace By J. M Coetzee

A nation is a large body of people united by common descent, history, culture, or language, inhabiting a particular state or territory. A novel could represent and tell about various things and about various characters at the same time which could be imaginary or fragments of real life which is imbibed in the work of art. A novel comprises of various issues and concepts which are related to the nation as a whole or which tells about a particular nation.For instance,the novel ‘Disgrace’ by J.M Coetzee tells about the post apartheid movement in South Africa between the years 1991 to 1996 and how that movement as a whole totally presented the totally inverted worldview of blacks and whites.So,reading about the history of nation can be very useful

River of Fire captures two thousand years of Indian history through the lived experience of four recurring characters:Gautam,Champa,Kamal,and Cyril. Out of the four characters,the first three enjoy a more privileged position within the narrative drive of the novel. In total the Subcontinent is represented as a storage area of the different cultures that enrich the soil and are tamed by India.The final chapters,captures the post-partition history of India and Pakistan within the metaphor of the family.It is in the final sections of the novel where one can trace an important and sophisticated critique of the nation-state.There is no doubt that the final chapters of River of Fire are an attempt at coping with the trauma of the partition,but this representation is less focused on the violence of the partition and more on the experience of living the new form of national identity as it unfolds across the Indian landscape. Hence,in a way exactly at a time when the Urdu novel is taking a nationalistic turn,Hyder’s River of Fire attempts to critique the nation-state and highlights the importance of the artificiality of Indian national divide itself,the novel thus becomes the critique of the nation-state. Hyder’s novel however does not mobilize difference in articulating the nation,it rather invokes the mythologies of similarities and common interest to articulate the Hindu-Muslim