ISSN: 2360-7831

 International Journal of English Literature and Culture
 

International Journal of English Literature and Culture

Vol. 7(2), pp. 19-27, March, 2019

 ISSN: 2360-7831

DOI: 10.14662/IJELC2019.007

Review paper

The writings of V.S. Naipaul deal with shifting identities, roots, homes and changing realities of migrants. The rootlessness is a prominent theme found in almost all of Naipaul’s writings. It generates from alienation brought about by exile; physical, psychological or social. He describes the people who had to abandon their own countries and shift themselves in strange places without friend with little loyalties and with the feeling that they are trespassing. The present research paper is an attempt to view some of the problems faced by the diasporic community due to their caste and ethnicity in the settled society as revealed in the novels of Naipaul. Almost all the diasporic communities face initial problems and sufferings when they settle in a new land. Among the problems that diasporic communities face in the settled country are discrimination and social fragmentation. Discrimination is the leading trauma, which upsets them most, and caused a subaltern status in an alien land.

Keywords: Caste, Migration, Ethnicity, Home and Homelessness

 

Cite This Article As:  Pal G., Dangwal, S (2019). Exploring Caste, Ethnicity and Social Fragmentation in Naipaul’s The Mimic Men and The Suffrage of Elvira. Inter.  J. Eng. Lit. Cult. 7(2): 19-27