Myths of Imperialistic Pioneer and Traumatic Past: Exploring Otherness in Neo-Victorian Realm in Kate Grenville’s The Secret River.

Abstract

 This research paper argues how the imperialistic nuances set to form a subjective slavery within nation and prompts to exert the racial domination over the indigenous people by the white subjects, even by those who are lower in socio-economic standing. It attempts to confront the social and cultural phenomenon that championing the exclusion of suppressed group in terms of economy, race, and class from the Neo-Victorian context lens. The paper elaborates on the process of imperial canonization which generates the ‘performative exclusivity’ and estrangement by silencing those who occupies the powerless position within the social and political realm. It elucidates the interplay between the plotting of neglection in relation to the class and racial consciousness and counter-narratives to the notion of stereotyping which acts with a tendency defined by collective narcissism. This paper analyses how the unfortunate past of a specific class group encourages them to violate the boundaries of the other one. It emphasizes how the economic subjugation of inferior mortals shapes the mutilation of their moral relativities inciting the concern of racial prejudices. The paper explores Neo-Victorian social background and its challenging identity politics that shows a reference point to the chaos happened due to the economic instability in England and ensued colonial impacts in Australia. The effort to revisit the Neo-Victorian social history bridges the gap in understanding the problematizing relations between upper class and lower class, and colonizers and colonized