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International Journal of English Literature and Culture Vol. 2(10), pp. 227-229, October, 2014 ISSN: 2360-7831 DOI: 10.14662/IJELC2014.064 Review A Critical Study on Ethno-Cultural Denigration and Aimless Quest for Personal Identity in John Ralston Saul's Characterization
Motaleb Azari
Department of Studies in English, Payame Noor University of Chenaran, Iran. E-mail: motaleb1stmarch@yahoo.com
Accepted 5 October 2014
Award-winning
novelist, essayist, historian and cultural philosopher, John Ralston
Saul has earned substantial recognition as the author of densely plotted
novels of contemporary socio-political and moral intrigue and sometimes
of black comedy. Most of his characters are engaged in an endless search
of their lost personal and cultural identities in “the endless valleys
of human society”. In fact, a realistic sense of ethno-cultural
denigration is central to all his novels, mainly set in Asian countries.
Presenting a close reading of selected novels by John Ralston Saul, the
present paper tries to investigate the art of characterization in Saul’s
writing and clarify how the mind of each character is pre-occupied with
cultural hegemonies as the main force in his / her loss of personal
identity.
Cite This Article As: Azari M (2014). A Critical Study on Ethno-Cultural Denigration and Aimless Quest for Personal Identity in John Ralston Saul's Characterization. Inter. J. Eng. Lit. Cult. 2(10): 227-229
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