International Journal of English Literature and Culture
 

International Journal of English Literature and Culture

Vol. 5(3), pp. 52-56, May, 2017

 ISSN: 2360-7831

DOI: 10.14662/IJELC2017.016

Review paper

V. S. Naipaul is considered to be one of the most prominent expatriate novelists having first hand colonial experience. The present novel deals with cultural crisis in postcolonial societies with an explicit account of the common complexities inborn among the marginalized societies. Naipaul’s works are commonly regarded as an implicit biography of his departure from the narrow background of the Caribbean island to the open cosmopolitan culture of the world at large. He carries three conflicting, at a time, interacting components in his personality of being a Trinidadian colonial, an English metropolitan, and a person of Indian ancestry. Naipaul delineates the Indian immigrants’ dilemma, his problems and plights in a fast changing world. In his works one can find the agony of an exile; the pangs of a man in search of meaning and identity: a daredevil who has tried to explore myths and see through fantasies. Out of his dilemma is born a rich body of writings which has enriched diasporic literature and the English language.  The present paper deals with the sense of otherization, rootlessness and alienation due to cultural crisis in diasporic community with reference to A House for Mr. Biswas.

 Keywords: Otherization, Alienation, Cultural Crisis, Expatriation and Rootlessness

Cite This Article As: Pal G (2017). Cultural Crisis in V.S. Naipaul’s A House for Mr. Biswas. Inter. J. Eng. Lit. Cult. 5(3): 52-56

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