A Study of Alienation of Migrants in the Select Novels of V. S. Naipaul
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https://doi.org/10.53032/tcl.2019.4.1.17Keywords:
Diaspora, Trauma, Alienation, Indigenous, Colonialism, Supremacy, MigrationAbstract
V. S. Naipaul's fiction as well as non-fiction demonstrates the autobiographical materials plus these overlapping statements work to present a vivid bank account of this author's own enigma of survival and growth together with the affliction as well as condition of the expatriates within the colonial as well as post-colonial era. V. S. Naipaul is the ideal writer who is searching for the origins of his and also surveying India through the distinctive viewpoint of under an outsider, a cosmopolitan Caribbean brand new resident of England, but of Indian beginnings attempting to comprehend out the complexities on the culture of ours. This research considers displacement in Naipaul's The Mimic Men, A House of Mr Biswas, The Mystic Masseur and A Bend in the River as a traumatic experience. This paper analyses all of the pain and sufferings of migrants in four novels. Taking an interdisciplinary approach to the topic of the study, it explores the psychological and historical dimensions of the displacement in the novel, along with its literary representations in terms of identity, culture, survival and stress disorder. In order to complete the theme of present research paper effectively, the main aim is usually to go over the benefits of Diasporic sensibility of Naipaul that cannot be just overlooked in the life of his.
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