• Satya Nath Pegu

New Historicism is an approach to literary criticism and literary theory based on the premise that a literary work should be considered a product of the time, place, and historical circumstances of its composition rather than as an isolated work of art or text. It gives equal emphasis on the literary and non-literary texts. New Historicist treats text and co-text equally in which the historical document is not treated as context but as co-text. It has its roots in a reaction to the “New Criticism” of formal analysis of works of literature, which was seen by a new generation of professional critics as ignoring the greater social and political consequences of the production of literary texts. It was coined by Harvard English Professor, Stephen Greenblatt, who is regarded as the major founder of New Historicism. The theory arose in the 1980s and gained widespread influence in the 1990s. As New Historicism provides a new approach to understanding fiction, it can provide understanding of history from multiple perspectives. This paper focuses on national history in Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude(1967) and Birendra Kumar Bhattacharyya’s Mrityunjay (1970) through basic approach of New Historicism by analyzing ‘the historicity of text’ and ‘the textuality of history’. The paper will also focus on the comparative analysis of the two writers.

New Historicism, text and co-text, national, comparative.

"New Historicism in Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 12, page no.70-75, December-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1812E36.pdf

"New Historicism in Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 12, page no. pp70-75, December-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1812E36.pdf