International Research journal of Management Sociology & Humanities
( ISSN 2277 - 9809 (online) ISSN 2348 - 9359 (Print) ) New DOI : 10.32804/IRJMSH
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FACING THE POSTCOLONIAL DILEMMAS: A STUDY OF KIRAN DESAI'S NOVEL ‘THE INHERITANCE OF LOSS’
1 Author(s): DR. KIRAN KUMAR GOLLA
Vol - 7, Issue- 1 , Page(s) : 87 - 95 (2016 ) DOI : https://doi.org/10.32804/IRJMSH
Ever since Post-Colonial literatures have come into existence, the writers were trying to create a new form of fiction within the English language by incorporating new images and above all new rhythms. One of the major features of postcolonial texts is the concern with place and displacement, shifting of location and resulting in " the crisis of identity into being" (Bill Ashcroft and et al., 47).Often, the protagonist of a post- colonial work will find himself/herself in a struggle to establish an identity; feeling conflicted between two cultures - one his own native culture and the other an alien culture. Therefore, a central theme in post-colonial writing is the transformation of the native into something other than himself - a Westernized native, or at least one who is in a crisis regarding his/her own cultural identity. Here, there is always a tension between wanting to belong to the new society yet wanting to retain the culture of the old one.