Abstract 126.
Kasfia Yasmin Anwa
Nation and Narration: Power of (hi)story or myth to make a shift between
dissent & assertion
History is always written by the winners and the
narration of history is always being glorified in such a way that people love
to think they are part of it. During the oppression which one is regarded as a
dissent or a form of protest, just after the make shift of power it becomes the
Glorified or Inspiring writing to uphold the unity. In Homi K. Bhabha’s word,
'Nations, like narratives, lose their origins in the myths of time and only
fully encounter their horizons in the mind's eye'. This paper will focus on the issue that how
myth and history or just the “story” are being used as a weapon of manipulation
to rule the mass and how the shifting of time and power turn the dissent into
assertion or the opposite mainly in the light of Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s
Children which portrays the history of this subcontinent completely from a
different perspective. Because of its narratology it can be interpreted both as
dissent and assertion of sub continental (hi)story and myth of past glory which
actually gives the notion how narration can control a nation.
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