GENERATIONS OF SILENCE: JOURNEYS OF THE EXILED IN O V VIJAYAN’S TALAMURAKAL
Area/Stream: Social Sciences, Authors: Dr Prathyaksh Janardhanan Keywords: Generation of silence, sympathetic perspective talking, free-floating, O V Vijayan's Talamurakal Book Name /series: Futuristic Trends in Social Sciences, Volume 2, Book 4, Part 5, Chapter 3Publication: IIP Proceedings Year: 2022, Month: November Page No: 164-171, ISSN/ISBN: 978-93-95632-75-1, DOI/Link: https://www.rsquarel.org/assets/docupload/rsl20232400991B8A0D277.pdf
Abstract:
The word Cosmopolitanism has largely been defined as rhetoric comfortable describing psychological identities, cultural geographies, political visions, aesthetic practices and ethical principles. As a conceptual and analytical category, cosmopolitanism also offers a means to articulate a contested language for lives lived across social borders. It can also be seen as an attitude of open engagement with unfamiliar people and places sympathetic perspective-taking, which places a positive value on openness to unfamiliar parts of the world. (Black 47). In other words, the term appears in recent scholarship as a free-floating category, which is insufficiently grounded in space and time (Mohanty 1), necessitating an understanding of alternative trajectories to the ‘dominant versions’ of cosmopolitanism(Mohanty ix).
