Comparative Study on Identity Crisis in Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger and Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Journal Title: International Journal of English and Literature (IJEL) - Year 2019, Vol 9, Issue 3
Abstract
The White Tiger and The Reluctant Fundamentalist present a postcolonial study of individual identity in the society. The post-colonial dialects, subaltern or underclass occupies the prominent place which incorporates everyone in terms of class, caste, age, gender, culture, etc. The lack of identification and recognition in society resist the boundaries and defeat the protagonists emotionally and physically in both the novels. They live helplessly, suffer alone and get a marginal place in the society, history, and culture and they are forbidden as humans by fellow human beings. Both the writers focused on the light of identity crisis, cultural discrimination, political corruptions, and inferiority complex in the socio-economic and culture areas. The novels describe the positive and negative developments of the people of the nations. The identity is the prime concern in the novels of Mohsin Hamid and Aravind Adiga. Both the writers raised many issues in their works such as identity-based on culture. This paper is an attempt to bring out the state of an identity crisis, struggles for existence and economic crisis in the selected novels The White Tiger and The Reluctant Fundamentalist.
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Ambedkar Bodigadla, Apsara Stanley
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