PROBING THE PAST REALITIES IN NURUDDIN FARAH’S CLOSE SESAME

Abstract

Historical literature is an amalgamation of historical incidents with the imaginary narration of an author with an accurate setting of fictional characters and events. The thematic motif of this genre is to recount the past experiences of the people who lived in a particular sect of time. This genre decodes the cultural evolution in a pragmatic approach and it attempts to portray a broader view of a past society in which great events are reflected by their impact on the private lives of fictional individuals. The true blend of historical facts the readers to probe into human experiences, individual perspectives, and cultural metamorphosis vividly. History is overviewed from the past and it is a collection of facts, however, this blended combination allows the reader to explore the human emotions from the past days. Nuruddin Farah has garnered acclaim as one of the greatest modern African literary writers from Somalia for his rich imagination and fortuitous use of language. Propagating the history of his native soil seems to be one of the sole purposes of his writings. This research paper attempts to decode the narrative strategies of Farah by blending the Somalian past in the novel Close Sesame.