LIBERATION MOTIF IN SELECT NOVELS OF MULK RAJ ANAND ...

Liberation as a process and an end, is claimed to be theuniversal clamour and experience of all oppressed peoples of theworld. while this process may have the special cultural hues andhistorical trappings of a particular nation, the generalingredients and basic impulse and thrust are comaon. Theideology component is very important and therefore, it may beprescribed that a liberationist writer has a corresponding creedor philosophy or vision a.$ Anand 3Eikud.I:~aga in his non-f ictionalwriting as well as in his fictional works. Achebe has timeand again voiced his concern for the liberation of his fellowAfricans and has articulated his motives and goals in writing*What follows in the thesis purports to elucidate thehypothesis that such a liberationist framework is not absent fromthe novels of Anand and Achebe. Their protestations andconfession relating to their literary creed and personal beliefand vision, though very convincing and credible, do not deter usfrom delving deep into their respective oeuvre. What followswill demonstrate how a critical search into the works of art ofthese two novelists, will bear ample evidence to the fact that aliberationist interpretation is very much in order. Thisinvestigation will therefore not only take us inta the labyrinthof the artistsf wealth of material, content, story line or theme,but also bring us face to face with the techniques, linguisticand artistic variations, adaptations and innovation and stylisticpatterns.