Reconstructing Fakirmohan Senapati as a Bakhtinian Novelist

Abstract

This paper aims to highlight the shift in paradigm in the criticisms written on Fakirmohan Senapati. Taking Senapati's literary masterpiece Six Acres and a Third (2005) (Originally published as Chhamana Athhaguntha 1896-98 ) as the centre of focus it analyses  how it has been looked at from different perspectives by various critics at different points of time in history .Starting its journey as a moralist and social reformist novel, how the novel has undergone transformation into a post-modernist and post-colonial fiction through shift in critical attention is examined here. It will also try to correlate how this has contributed to Senapati's journey from a regional writer to a world author.