A House for Mr. Biswas: A Rueful Quest of Identity

Abstract

Needless to say, “Imperialism played a key role in bringing a sense of alienation and disorder to the countries where imperialists ruled”. Homi K. Bhaba states, essentially:  Colonial discourse wants the colonized to be extremely like, but by no means identical. If there were an absolute equivalence between the two, then the ideologies justifying the colonial rule would be unable to operate. This is because these ideologies assume that there is structural non- equivalence, a split between superior and inferior, which explains why anyone groups of people can dominate another at all." The paper intends is to probe into  the V.S Naipaul's discerning to  postcolonial identity  through his marvellous book  " A House of Mr. Biswas " Naipaul stirred the world literature to focus the identity crisis in the set up of post colonial platform A House for Mr. Biswas about an immigrant’s attempt to assert his identity and independence.