Journal of Literature, Culture and Media Studies

Shail Bala ¹, Gajendra Kumar ²

Affiliations
1 Department of English, Rajendra College, Chapra (Bihar), IN
2 Dept. of English, Rajendra College, Chapra (Bihar), IN

Abstract

In the critical discourse of narrative art, Kiran Desai offered a dizzy height to Indian English writing on account of her second novel The Inheritance of Loss. The thematic domain of the novel is quite impressive and comprehensive as it registers the disruptive influences and impact of post-colonial facets of the society. The novel also contains a Marxian insight in weaving and presenting the contemporary framework of the society. In the structural devices of the story-line, we come across Jemubhai and his father who does not find himself comfortable to provide a befitting education to his son. The principal area of the novel is carved out in Kalimpong, western part of Darjeeling hills which bears the timephenomena of Globalization and its discontent among the people. The novel offers a galaxy of characters like sixteen years old orphaned, Sai, the old cook, Biju and so many other characters. In the middle part of the novel, the love-episode of Sai-Gyan appears in a dominating mood. Apart from such things, the novel also shows different dimensions like identities, nations, nationalities and issues like marginality and subaltern. Truly, Kiran Desai provides a spectrum of psychotherapy of numerous characters who become an epitome of the contemporary contradictory and conflicting situation.

Keywords

Hybridization, Paradigm, Immigrants, Post-Colonialism, Globalization, Marxist, Anglophile, Marginalization, Subaltern, Insurgent, Desolation and Desperation, Nostalgia, Diasporic, Antagonistic.

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