identity crisis in v.s naipaul's a house for mr. biswas
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Identity Crisis in V.S. Naipaul’s A House for Mr. Biswas
Paper- XVI- New Literatures
Prepared by- Payal Patel
M.A. Sem-IV
Roll no- 16
March, 2012
Bhavnagar University
Bhavnagar
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Quest for identity
• Individualism• Alienation & Rootlessness• Hybridity and Creolization• Struggle for Survival • Diaspora • Sense of Loss• Loss of ethnicity
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Characteristics of Diasporic Literature
• The reflection of cultural and historical crises, place and
identity, East-West encounters, ultimate identities such as
ethnicity, racism, regionality, nationality, gender and
cultural locations, displacement, fragmentation,
internalization and marginalization, memory, home land,
house and self-identity.
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Chain of Process
MigrationMarginalizati
on
AlienationUnhomelines
s
RootlessnessIdentity Crises
Turmoil of Heart
A House for Mr. Biswas
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Conclusion
House is the mark of IDENTITY in the world of alienation. (Raosaheb)
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Work cited
• Patel Vasant S. V.S. Naipaul’s India, 2005. ISBN 81-87471-15-8.
Print.
• Ray Mohit K. V.S.Naipaul, Critical Essays, Vol.II. 2002. ISBN
81-269- 0165-9. Print.
• Raosaheb Vijay, Post colonialism in the Fiction of Naipaul. Web.
23 Feb. 2012. <http://rsnitonde.webs.com/postcolonialism.htm>
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Thank you
This presentation is submitted to Department of English (Bhavnagar University, Bhavnagar).
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