V. S. Naipaul, the mouthpiece of displacement and rootlessness is one of the most significant contemporary English Novelists. Of Indian descent, born in Trinidad, and educated in England, Naipaul has been placed as a rootless nomad in the cultural world, always on a voyage to find his identity. The expatriate sensibility of Naipaul haunts him throughout his fiction and other works, he becomes spokesman of emigrants. He delineates the Indian immigrant’s dilemma, his problems and plights in a fast-changing
V. S. Naipaul’s A House for Mr. Biswas is a story of Indian Hindu migrants whose grand-parents have been migrated in Trinidad and Tobago as indentured labourers on the sugarcane estates and started living there permanently. Two families have been described particularly in the novel in the main plot. One is Mohun Biswas’s family and other one is Tulsi family in Arwacas. Hindu rituals, rites and customs have been criticized in the novel at many places. Mr. Biswas tragic Hindu life starts when he was
connected world. The twentieth century based film “The Mystic Masseur” by Ismail Merchant which is based on the novel The Mystic Masseur by V.S. Naipaul is a coming of age story that deals with the search for identity. The protagonist, Ganesh in Mystic Masseur is searching for who he is and faces unique obstacles in becoming himself. The Mystic Masseur by V.S. Naipaul, narrates the story of Ganesh, a Hindu man struggling to find his place in a society that is divided between Indian and British cultures
the tramp at Piraeus could have never arisen. V.S. Naipaul illustrates his journey from Piraeus to Alexandria in a morose tone and gloomy language. Most texts written about a journey have elaborate details about its natural surroundings, but this extract indulges more into the 'dingy' steamer itself and its passengers. He takes an insight into understanding his fellow passengers, especially the tramp. Using these techniques, V.S. Naipaul has produced an influential and forlorn text. The
as characteristic of women and girls, as gentleness, weakness, delicacy, modesty, etc" (Webster). The charcters in Miguel Street have been ingrained with the pre- conceived notions of the roles that Trinidadian society dictates for men and women. Naipaul not only uses these notions to show the differences of the sexes, but takes another step in telling anecdotes of characters showing their anti-masculine and anti- feminine features. This will lead to the discovery that our definitions of masculinity
fragmentation to exist within society. In each of the short stories, “One Out of Many” written by Nobel laureate V.S. Naipaul and “The
CHAPTER-II Diasporic Consciousness and V. S. Naipaul Diasporic consciousness, as a dominant phenomenon in the world literature exposes the mental flight of people who constantly trying to reconstruct their present based on their past. Their past hunts them to a frozen and fractured consciousness that force them to search for locating their identity and this search for locating the identity became the starting point of diasporic literature. Their quest for the past and the assimilation into the
SUBMITTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MYSORE FOR OF THE AWARD OF THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN ENGLISH BY GURUPRASAD S Y Under the Supervision of Dr. K.T. SUNITHA Professor of English DEPARTMENT OF STUDIES IN ENGLISH UNIVERSITY OF MYSORE MANASAGANGOTRI MYSORE-570006 JUNE 2015 DEPARTMENT OF STUDIES IN ENGLISH UNIVERSITY OF MYSORE MANASAGANGOTHRI, MYSORE-570 006 DECLARATION I, GURUPRASAD S Y, declare that this thesis entitled Creole Identity in Samuel Selvon’s Fiction: A Postcolonial Study is the result
Ideas of Progress in Naipaul's A Bend in the River In his novel A Bend in the River, V. S. Naipaul paints a picture of Salim, an Indian man living in an isolated African town at the beginning of independence. Salim, as an Indian, has something of a unique perspective on the events of the time - in some ways, he lives between two worlds. Having experienced the "civilizing" influence of British colonial rule, he comes from a culture that is more "advanced" than that of Africa but less so than
to a quick conclusion about the subject of the novel, given the highly public sibling rivalry exhibited by the older generation of the Theroux family. Marcel is Paul Theroux's son; a section of his father's uproariously entertaining book about V. S. Naipaul, ''Sir Vidia's Shadow,'' elaborated with what seemed like relish on the theme that one brother is always the other's literary inferior. Many readers felt that these passages drew on feelings about Alexander Theroux, Paul's writer brother. And then
the identity of the parental land. In contemporary modern era, immigration , exile and expatriation are related to home, identity , nostalgia, memory and isolation. These are mainly the recurrent themes in the diasporic writings of writers like V. S Naipaul, Salman Rushdie, Jhumpa Lahiri, Kiran Desai and many other
of immigrant, the refugee, is characterized by a longing for the homeland. Mukherjee explains the difference between an immigrant writer and an immigrant/refugee writer by showing the contrasts between herself and another Indian writer, V.S. Naipaul: Naipaul, who was born in Trinidad because his relatives left India involuntarily to settle there, has different attitudes about himself. He writes about living in perpetual exile and about the impossibility of ever having a home... ... middle of paper
Maharashtra in India. His debut novel which is The White Tiger even won the 2008 Booker Prize. Adiga is the fourth Indian author to win the Booker prize which was after Salman Rushdie, even Arundhati Roy and also Kiran Desai. Another winner V. S. Naipaul is again of Indian origin but he was not born in India. Well, the other five authors won this prize are the Indian writer Amitav Ghosh and also the first time writer named Steve Toltz. His novel The White Tiger studies the contrast between country
Margaret Atwood’s name is counted amongst the most famed writers of Canadian Literature, having published fourteen novels, seven collections of short prose and short stories, and seventeen books of poetry to its credit. While her works boast of diversity, some themes and ideologies constantly recur, including a fascination with the Canadian wilderness, a concern with women’s place in society, Canada’s postcolonial status, and finally, the importance of history in Canada’s process of nation formation