Abstract
Being inspired by the Western hegemonic discourse, the
Romania novelist, Mircea Eliade’s Eurocentric line of thought
renders the Others/Indians as uncivilized, primitives and
exotic in Bengal Nights. The present study upholds that the
novel offers ambivalence-based stereotypical colonial- expressions and the interactions between Eliade and Devien
vision such a third space of enunciation, which not only
exposes the instability of colonial discourse from within but
also underscores the hybridization of the contacting cultures
simultaneously. Bhabha’s theory is congenial in bringing to
light the stereotypical thinking of Eliade about colonial India.
Therefore, the objective of the study is to discover how Eliade’s
construction of colonial discourse depicts his ambivalent self- articulation. By doing a re-reading of the novel, it has been
found that despite the permeability of the colonial
relationships suggested by Eliade’s adventure, cultural and
racial divisions between East and West seem to be collapsing,
paving the ways for hybrid colonial encounters
Hafiz Muhammad Zahid Iqbal , Dr. Naveed Rehan . (2020) Ambivalent Colonial Encounters: A Postcolonial Rereading of Mircea Eliade’s Bengal Nights, Pakistan Social Sciences Review, Volume 4, Issue 2.
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