ABSTRACT
This chapter summarizes the main themes of the book. It revisits the concept of novelistic “world making” as it is registered in the typologies of Indian and Irish women’s family fiction and elaborates the implications of the key paradigms of “core and periphery”, and “public and private”. The conclusion describes the significance of these concepts as they are adopted in fiction through different modes of storytelling, such as flashback, testimonial, pastiche and memory. This chapter also incorporates a summary comparison of the novels to chart how depictions of the family evolve from the early postcolonial period to the later globalization era.
