The Labyrinth Revisited: Discussing Sujata Massey’s “The Sleeping Dictionary” as a Subverting Bildungsroman Cover Image

The Labyrinth Revisited: Discussing Sujata Massey’s “The Sleeping Dictionary” as a Subverting Bildungsroman
The Labyrinth Revisited: Discussing Sujata Massey’s “The Sleeping Dictionary” as a Subverting Bildungsroman

Author(s): Saptarshi Roy
Subject(s): Novel, Theory of Literature, American Literature
Published by: Филолошки факултет Универзитета у Бањој Луци
Keywords: Bildungsroman; Feminine entity; gendered codes; Freedom struggle; Development; personality and identity;

Summary/Abstract: Sujata Massey catches a rupture from her popular Rei Shimura mystery series and puts pen to paper. The Sleeping Dictionary (published as City of Palaces in India)—a rambling, Victorian era motivated novel; set between 1925 and the end of World War II. The Sleeping Dictionary provides a leaving for the novelist, whose mysteries have pinned to themselves practically every medal in the genre. Sujata Massey, has treaded self-assuredly into the dominion of historical fiction out of her thriller approach to write quite a new thriller while paying attention to history. The Sleeping Dictionary exhales nuovo lease of life into both the bromidic plots of a stray in opposition to the planet, and the forever and a day trendy coming-of-age account by handling curious backdrops and avant-garde confronts.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 14
  • Page Range: 442-451
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: English