![]() In the novels, The Stillborn and The Descendants Alkali established matriarchal society through cultural change which means supporting and encouraging gender conflict to continue. With this picture of Northern Nigerian society, Alkali has the boldness and courage to come up with questions on women’s role in her literary writings. The men are the ones to decide, even if the matter affects the women. In Northern Nigerian society, women have no say in whatever matters that may arise in the family. The concepts discussed in this study are the chronotope of the castle and crisis / threshold.Ībstract Alkali’s society is deeply patriarchal in nature and women’s position does not go beyond a mere feeble and second class figure. This study has picked out a few of the time-space indicators from the novel The Krishna Key by Ashwin Sanghi in order to explore them according to Bakhtin's literary theory of Chronotope as he discussed in his essay Forms of Time and Chronotope in the Novel in his essay collections, The Dialogic Imagination. To date, there are very few studies that have applied this theory on postmodern literary works and even fewer that have used it to analyse Asian literary works what more suspense thrillers. Most studies that applied Bakhtin's literary theory of Chronotope are modern literary works. Bakhtin's literary theory of Chronotope is chosen for this study because it is yet to be used to analyse an Indian English suspense thriller novels. ![]() This study aims to explore the portrayal of chronotope in the chosen novel. It is crucial to understand the meaning of temporal and spatial indicators and references in order to understand a narration. This study looks into the features of time and space in a postmodern Indian English novel. ![]()
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