A Search for Identity by a Diasporic Writer: V. S. Naipaul
Keywords:
V.S. Naipaul, Diasporic, Identity.Abstract
The concept of ethnicity has been used in recent discourses to map the cultural, social, political, and national identities in the colonized world. This present study is an inquiry into V. S. Naipaul’s fiction as an experiential recreation of the third world consciousness as it emerges into an anguished awareness of ‘unimportance’ in the modern world. Naipaul is a multilayered international writer and the question of his identity crops up because of his immigrant background and the displacement it caused. This article analyses three novels by Naipaul: A House for Mr. Biswas, The Mimic Men, and Guerillas, based on the theme of the search for identity
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