标题：amnesia is a curse Ramanujanian Notions of Identity And Memory: A Reading of the Dialectics of Reflexive/Self-Reflexive, Context-Sensitivity/ Context-Free In Select Non-Fictional Prose of A.K. Ramanujan
期刊名称：Researchers World - Journal of Arts Science & Commerce
印刷版ISSN：2229-4686
电子版ISSN：2229-4686
出版年度：2012
卷号：3
期号：3(1)
页码：34-40
出版社：Educational Research Multimedia & Publication
摘要：The trajectory between contexts of living or cultural moorings to identity formations always seems to be a focal issue for a diasporic writer like A.K. Ramanujan. In all his general essays on literature and culture, the writer seeks to develop a number of innovative theoretical paradigms to deal with questions of identities as a plural category, specifically in postcolonial nations like India where culture itself is seen 'singular at the top and plural at the bottom'. Incorporating the trajectory between reflexivity/self-reflexivity and context-sensitivity/context-free, the theorist goes on to vindicate the interconnectedness of civilizations, cultures, traditions, textual productions along with individual identities as categories of having internal tension and dialogism. For the writer, if reflexivity conjoins one culture, text, individual to another and self-reflexivity/context-sensitivity denote specificity of character, then context-free urges leads culture or an individual towards the route to universalisation. Whereas memory is intrinsically related with formations of identities depending on contexts of living and cultural moorings, memory also provides the scope to be intimate with ancestral root, primordial culture and tradition i.e. the context-sensitive urges at present. In constituting the mentioned notions of identity and memory, Ramanujan follows the postpositivist realist theory of identity. The present essays is a critical evaluation of Ramanujan's innovative but less institutionalized notions of identities and memory, as strategic categories vis-¨¤-vis the mentioned trajectories as revealed to us through his non-fictional prose. For the same, the researcher has incorporated Ramanujan's general essays on literature and culture as well as well-recognized notions of identity and memory in academia and has sought to draw the peculiarities of what can be said as typical Ramanujanian
关键词：Identities; Memory; reflexivity/self-reflexivity; context-sensitivity/context-free; postpositivist ;realist theory
