Contesting the can(n)on: RevisitingKimin I. Allan Sealy'sThe Trotter‐Nama

‘This Foul Substance Is Called History’: Anglo-Indian Memory-narratives and (Mis)remembrances in Sealy’s The Trotter-nama

“…According to Jade Furness, ‘Set within the colonial and postcolonial discourses of India, The Trotter-nama is a magical realist polemic that blends fact and fiction, the literal and the figurative to produce an Anglo-Indian mythology that is accessible to us all’ (Furness, 2021, p. 415). Foregrounding the Anglo-Indian heritage through a novel that spans seven generations, 300 years, and over 500 pages, Sealy arguably ‘offers the most comprehensive account to date of how the Anglo-Indian community has lived and what they have felt’ (Crane, 2008, p. 151) through acts of remembrances and memory practices. This experientiality makes the novel an appropriate site for exploring memory, history and modernity questions.…”