PAPER ID: IJIM/Vol. 2 (VIII) 246-248/40

AUTHOR: Dr.M.R Verma and Digvijay

TITLE: UNREALIZED LONGINGS: IDENTITY CRISIS IN BEN OKRI AND ARAVIND ADIGA’S FICTION

ABSTRACT: Third world countries like India and Nigeria share post-colonial trauma on socio-economic and political level. The people of these countries seem to lose their sense of pre-colonial past and post-colonial vision of the future. They find themselves unable to belong neither to their olden culture nor to the newly acquired values. They suffer from a sense of hollowness. Cultural and economic corruption have deeply conquered their identities. Both these writers and their selected novels carry a story which is located amidst this cultural hassle. A rigorous analysis of these novels with the help of a theatrical framework of Postcolonial theory will bring new ideological apparatus on the tricontinental literary scenario. The present paper will evaluate these novels in accordance with the critical spectrum of postcolonial theory in order to trace the impact of colonialism on the lives of third world populace.

KEYWORDS: Trauma, Corruption, Culture, Postcolonial, Legacy, Relations, History.

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