Postcolonial Aspects in the Works of Salman Rushdie Arundhatiroy and Kiran Desai

Abstract

The current thesis exploring the postcolonial aspects within the constitution of postcolonial literary works and all its relative aspects has been an important aim of this research. The research has undertaken literary writings of the designated postcolonial writers from the Indian writing in English. A serious insight into postcolonial novels of Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy and Kiran Desai has come up with the distinctive line of postcolonial aspects. At times, interpretation of literary works has necessitated application of distinctive theoretical perspectives to the genre. Undoubtedly, novels of Rushdie s such as Midnight s Children (1981), Shame (1983), Shalimar, the Clown (2005) and Enchantress of Florence (2008), Roy s The God of Small Things (1997) and Desai s Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard (1998) and The Inheritance of Loss (2006) have gained wide range of recognition. They raise issues associated with Postcolonialism and its aspects like history, hegemony, hybridity representation and sexuality. These novels merely do not stop with their voices as such but go beyond and explicitly reveal what the writers intended to convey. newlineThe research has been designed in such a fashion as to open new vistas of the relationship between postcolonial aspects infused in postcolonial literary writing. Since, the research is deals with postcolonial writing; it has benefitted literature. Almost, all the postcolonial writers have contributed and have larger ideological influence on the genre. Infact, their writings have been instrumental to propagate their self-vision, ideology to the readership. It has been very interesting to trace out their commitment to postulate facts of human life with inculcation of fancies in this hybrid genre. Wonderfully, they intend to have intellectual engagement with their readership. They instil both literary techniques, just to fabricate new landscape view of contemporary life so as to serve the purpose of the postcolonial perspective. However, the research also explores on the generic dimens