Art of Forgetting in Easterine Kire’s Mari

Abstract

The paper focuses on the concepts – of the ‘Art of Memory’ (Remembrance), ‘Forgiving and Forgetting, and ‘Forgetting in reserve’, which are considered to be the supportive concepts of the term ‘Art of Forgetting’. Applying the concepts to the novel Mari, the paper is a study on the idea of ‘forgetting’ and ‘remembering’. The term “Art of Forgetting” is commented on by critics like Halbwachs, Proust, Derrida, Weinrich, Ricoeur and others. The term occupies a comfortable position in the novel Mari written by the renowned Naga writer Easterine Kire Iralu.