Humility and the humble
A reading of the Nepali short stories of Maheshbikram Shah
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13005202 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kritika Chettri (0000-0002-0564-5057, North Bengal University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 191-207 |
| Publication date | 2020-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Short Fiction in Theory and Practice (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2043-0701 • E-ISSN: 2043-071X |
| Publisher | Intellect (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1386/fict_00027_1 |
| OpenAlex | W3135341252 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 6 |
This article focuses on a comparative analysis of the chronicling of the civil war in Nepal, within the collection of short stories by Maheshbikram Shah, titled Chapamar ko Choro (‘The guerrilla’s son’), with the novels Palpasa Café by Narayan Wagle and Urgen ko Ghoda (‘Urgen’s horse’) by Yug Pathak, and a memoir, Khalanga ma Hamla (‘Attack at Khalanga’), by Radha Paudel. I argue that the short stories adopt a lens of humility in viewing the conflict as opposed to the totalizing narratives of the novels and the memoir that seek to represent their idea of a humble life. The stories engage with an everyday life of the conflict that overturns its representation into a humble life within the novels. This argument opens up a myriad of questions about forms and ways of seeing: what does it mean to have humility in the face of a conflict? How does humility reconcile with questions of agency and dignity? If humility is a way of seeing, then does it also influence the form taken by the short stories? What are the ethical dimensions of the relationship humility forges between self and others? As the article seeks to answer these questions, the aim will be to establish the short stories of Shah as providing an interpretation of the conflict that remains obliterated within the novels and the memoir
Aesthetics · Art · Dignity · Humility · Literature · Memoir · Narrative · Political science · Sociology · Theology · Autobiographical and Biographical Writing · Law · Narrative Theory and Analysis · Philosophy · Russian Literature and Bakhtin Studies
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2021 (2) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |