Identity Crisis in V.S. Naipaul’s A House for Mr. Biswas

Paper- XVI- New Literatures

Prepared by- Payal Patel

M.A. Sem-IV

Roll no- 16

March, 2012

Bhavnagar University

Bhavnagar

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Quest for identity

• Individualism• Alienation & Rootlessness• Hybridity and Creolization• Struggle for Survival • Diaspora • Sense of Loss• Loss of ethnicity

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Characteristics of Diasporic Literature

• The reflection of cultural and historical crises, place and

identity, East-West encounters, ultimate identities such as

ethnicity, racism, regionality, nationality, gender and

cultural locations, displacement, fragmentation,

internalization and marginalization, memory, home land,

house and self-identity.

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Chain of Process

MigrationMarginalizati

on

AlienationUnhomelines

s

RootlessnessIdentity Crises

Turmoil of Heart

A House for Mr. Biswas

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Conclusion

House is the mark of IDENTITY in the world of alienation. (Raosaheb)

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Work cited

• Patel Vasant S. V.S. Naipaul’s India, 2005. ISBN 81-87471-15-8.

Print.

• Ray Mohit K. V.S.Naipaul, Critical Essays, Vol.II. 2002. ISBN

81-269- 0165-9. Print.

• Raosaheb Vijay, Post colonialism in the Fiction of Naipaul. Web.

23 Feb. 2012. <http://rsnitonde.webs.com/postcolonialism.htm>

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Thank you

This presentation is submitted to Department of English (Bhavnagar University, Bhavnagar).

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