Postmodern Consciousness in Sanjeev Upreti’s Ghanachakkar

Abstract

This study is an exploration of postmodern awareness in Sanjeev Upreti’s Ghanachakkar which reflects and dramatizes various changes and shifting patterns in Nepalese intellectual, social, cultural, political, and psychological phenomena during the transitional era of the recent Nepalese socio-political history. Observed from the perspective of a mentally disturbed university teacher of cultural studies, the novel presents the historiography of the transitional period that was marked with complexity, ambiguity, and multiplicity of thoughts and interests. Grounding upon the concepts of postmodernism of various postmodernist critics, this study brings postmodern consciousness into consideration which lies embedded in various issues and events the novel dramatizes. From the critical analysis of both form and contents, the novel appears as an expression of the postmodern awareness of contemporary Nepalese societies and its peoples’ psyches.