Narratives on Lost Terrains A Neocolonialist Reading of Select Contemporary Fictions in Malayalam

Neocolonialism, a term coined by Kwame Nkrumah, is defined as a covert project of the developed countries to exert their economic, political and cultural domination over the third world countries by making them follow blindly the ideas of development imposed by them and exploiting the land, labor and resources of these countries in a view of generating limitless profit. The paper studies two contemporary novels, Aathi 2011 and Swarga 2017 written by two renowned writer activists, Sarah Joseph and Ambikasuthan Mangadu of Kerala, and posits to underscore the prophetic vision in them that challenges the myopic ideas of development and the relentless ways of exploitation that are the hallmarks of neocolonialism. The paper also analyses the idea of the slow poisoning of nature that has been dexterously incorporated into the narratives, as a direct outcome of neocolonial endeavors. The paper also argues that by taking up the concept of bio imperialism into the ambit of its discourse, the writers have set a wake up call for all the stakeholders to be vigilant in their engagement with neocolonial forces. Dr. Sheethal S. Nair "Narratives on Lost Terrains: A Neocolonialist Reading of Select Contemporary Fictions in Malayalam" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-7 | Issue-4, August 2023, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd59830.pdf Paper Url:https://www.ijtsrd.com/humanities-and-the-arts/english/59830/narratives-on-lost-terrains-a-neocolonialist-reading-of-select-contemporary-fictions-in-malayalam/dr-sheethal-s-nair