Volume 7 : Issue 1 (2020)

Structure of Feelings in the Behaviour and Approach of Anglo-Indians of Bhowani Junction by John Masters

Bhowani Junction(1984) by John Masters is a story of a young Anglo-Indian girl who is in search of a right suiter and a shelter, but finds it much difficult to feel for herself while entering into relationships with three different men—first, with an Indian; second, with an English; and third, with an Anglo-Indian man like herself. For her, these relationships were cultural and cross-cultural experiences which she encounters with ambivalence, and with patterns of feeling—The Structure of Feelings (term by Raymond Williams). These structural feelings were culture driven and socio-psychological, which moulded her behaviour and approach towards her suiters for their selection, rejections and re-selection.

Cross-culture; Ambivalence; The structure of feelings; Socio-Psychology; Behaviour; Approach

Masters, John BhowaniJunction, Bengal-Rockland, 1984. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10155490120106032?journalCode=cpsw20 https://notevenpast.org/gramsci-on-hegemony/ https://www.britannica.com/science/structuralism-psychology