In these novels, the protagonists overcome their family doctrines to fulfill their wishes. These two novels exhibit the subject of postmodern metafiction through her writings. Shenoy is a noteworthy postmodern writer, and her famous novels are 'The Secret Wish List' (2012) and 'It Happens for Reason' (2014). This form of fiction accentuates its construct and reminds the readers to be aware of a fictional work. Metafiction is self-conscious in relation to language, literary form, and storytelling in fiction. This study aims to spotlight the postmodern tendency of metafiction in Preeti Shenoy's selected texts. By this disorder, her life is shattered and admitted in a mental asylum. The protagonist Ankita Sharma is affected by bipolar disorder. Bipolar disorder is one of the mental problems in paranoia. Finally, the findings of the study explore that postmodern paranoia exist in the works. The results of the study are compared and discussed with other studies concerning paranoia.
The issue of paranoia in the texts is substantiated and explored by using the various theories related to postmodern paranoia. The present study emphasizes Shenoy’s texts that depict the paranoid thoughts of Ankita Sharma. The methodology of the study also adopts the theories of paranoia proposed by Sigmund Freud, Sheldon Cooper, Jacques Lacan, Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Harry Stack Sullivan, Ivan Pavlov, Carl Jung, JeanFrancois Lyotard and James Cameron. These two novels focus on Ankita’s holocaust of mind. She is affected by bipolar disorder, and she leads her half of the life in a mental asylum. Ankita Sharma is the protagonist in both novels. These novels portray the issue of postmodern paranoia through her writings. Her famous novels are Life is What You Make It (2011) and Wake Up, Life is Calling (2019) that is a sequel to Life is What You Make It. The postmodern writer, Preeti Shenoy is a multifarious writer. The postmodern tendency of paranoia is exemplified by researchers in various works.
The features of paranoia are depression, exasperation and holocaust of mind, Schizophrenia, tantrums and hallucination.
The term Paranoia is irrational and persistent feeling. The aim of the study alleges on the postmodern perspectives of paranoia in Preeti Shenoy’s Life is What You Make It and Wake Up, Life is Calling.
0 kommentar(er)
