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Research Chronicler & Research Innovator www.rersearch-chronicler.com Research Chronicler ISSN-2347-503X International Multidisciplinary Research journal Research Chronicler A Peer-Reviewed Refereed and Indexed International Multidisciplinary Research Journal Volume III Issue I: January – 2015 CONTENTS Sr. No. Author Title of the Paper Download 1 Prakash Chandra Pradhan Political Context of V.S. Naipaul’s Early 3101PDF Novels: Identity Crisis, Marginalization and Cultural Predicament in The Mystic Masseur, The Suffrage of Elvira and The Mimic Men 2 Dr. Shivaji Sargar & The Ecofeminist Approach in Alice Walker’s 3102PDF Moushmi Thombare The colour Purple 3 Dr. Anuradha Re-Reading of Shange’s for colored girls 3103PDF Nongmaithem who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf 4 A. Anbuselvi Dysfunctional family and Marriages in Anne 3104PDF Tyler’s Novel 5 Deepanjali Mishra Impact of Sociolinguistics in Technical 3105PDF Education 6 Dr. Pooja Singh, Dr. Girl, Boy or Both: My Sexuality, My Choice 3106PDF Archana Durgesh & Ms. Tusharkana Majumdar 7 Vasanthi Vasireddy Akhila’s Escape to Kanyakumari – a Travel 3107PDF in Search of ‘Self’ 8 Dr. Laxman Babasaheb Social Consciousness in Early Dalit Short 3108PDF Patil Stories 9 Sushree Sanghamitra Corporate Governance Codes in India- A 3109PDF Badjena Critical Legal Analysis 10 Dr. Ashok D. Wagh The Role of Budgeting in Enhancing 3110PDF Genuineness and Reliability in Financial Administration in Colleges of Thane District 11 Sushila Vijaykumar Consciousness-Raising in Thirst 3111PDF 12 L.X. Polin Hazarika Influence of Society on Assamese Poetry 3112PDF 13 Dr. Archana Durgesh & Reading Women and Colonization: Revenge 3113PDF Ajay Kumar Bajpai 14 Sachidananda Saikia Mahesh Dattani’s ‘On a Muggy Night in 3114PDF Mumbai’: A Critique on Heterosexuality Volume III Issue I: January 2015 Editor-In-Chief: Prof. K.N. Shelke www.rersearch-chronicler.com Research Chronicler ISSN-2347-503X International Multidisciplinary Research journal 15 Nandini Sharma & Theatre and Phenomenology: Beckett’s 3115PDF Dr. V. Premlata Waiting for Godot within the Apparatus of Merleau Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perception 16 Mr. Suresh D. Sutar Ted Hughes’ Crow’s First Lesson: An Eco- 3116PDF critical Study 17 Goutam Karmakar A Study of Margaret Atwood and Her Poetic 3117PDF World 18 Dr. Ambreen Safder Havoc of Western Culture on Indian 3118PDF Kharbe Immigrants: A Study of Manju Kapur’s The Immigrant 19 Dr. Raja Ram Singh Ethnic Identity of Bagri caste: A Sociological 3119PDF Analysis 1 Hossein Sheikhzadeh Bāgādh, the Lizard - A Balochi Story 3120PDF 1 Dr. Chandra Shekhar On the 30th Anniversary of Bhopal Gas 3121PDF Sharma Tragedy Volume III Issue I: January 2015 Editor-In-Chief: Prof. K.N. Shelke www.rersearch-chronicler.com Research Chronicler ISSN-2347-503X International Multidisciplinary Research journal Political Context of V.S. Naipaul’s Early Novels: Identity Crisis, Marginalization and Cultural Predicament in The Mystic Masseur, The Suffrage of Elvira and The Mimic Men Prakash Chandra Pradhan Professor, Department of English, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, (U.P.) India Abstract V.S.Naipaul‘s early fiction is dominated by his youthful perceptions and impulses to understand his personal life deeper and better in a capricious, chaotic world-order. His existential position has been well narrated by the narrators of the early fiction so powerfully that these novels grip the attention of the readers deeply. All the protagonists of his early fiction are existential human beings, who struggle hard to challenge all the odds of life which rather marginalize them in their efforts to establish their identity. Naipaul is concerned with the condition of human world, their wretchedness, isolation and rootlessness. Since Naipaul declares himself that he does not belong to any country, society or religion or culture, he is a man of the world. With his impartiality, he perceives a clear vision of human situations that are rather disturbing. Moreover, as writer of fiction and travelogues he does not follow the traditional forms. He thinks that the existing forms are inadequate to represent the complexities of the contemporary human world. He is therefore iconoclastic in his approaches to both forms of fictions and travelogues. In his writings Naipaul as a sensitive writer, has tried to explore the predicament of all of us who are more or less exiles in our own surroundings The novel has therefore been rejuvenating through new materials of the new world. The paper aims at bringing out the political context of V.S.Naipaul‘s early novels. We will focus on Naipaul‘s early novels, more specifically the three novels written till 1967. Trinidad life is pre-dominant in these early novels. Both The Mystic Masseur and The Suffrage of Elvira deal with the exposure of Trinidad world of immigrant Hindu community with focus on post-colonial Third-world politics. The Mystic Masseur narrates the situations of life of Trinidad at the time of first General Election in 1946 whereas The Suffrage of Elvira focuses on the second General Election in 1950. The Mimic Men (1967) deals with politics, and illustrates the predicament of a decolonized country of developing and Independent existence. Key Words: Exile, diaspora, rootlessness, cultural identity, marginalization, existentialism, immigrant, decolonization, globalization, colonialism, postcolonialism Flag on the Island and In a Free State, in I this paper .That is because we treat them as The paper aims at bringing out the political short stories in a collection rather than full- context of V.S. Naipaul‘s early novels. We fledged novels. We have therefore analyzed have however not considered the shorter the early fictional texts, namely The Mystic fictions of Naipaul namely Miguel Street, A Masseur, The Suffrage of Elvira, and The Volume III Issue I: January 2015 (1) Editor-In-Chief: Prof. K.N. Shelke www.rersearch-chronicler.com Research Chronicler ISSN-2347-503X International Multidisciplinary Research journal Mimic Men. Naipaul‘s early fiction is form of social inquiry‘ and sees the writer as dominated by his youthful perceptions and one who owes a responsibility by society. impulses to understand his personal life Although for a writer with such a positive deeper and better in a capricious, chaotic prescription his is a singularly negative world-order. His existential position has vision, Naipaul‘s work is of the utmost been well narrated by the narrators of the relevance in a world in which we are all in a early fiction so powerfully that these novels sense exiles‖ (1994: xiii). In his writings grip the attention of the readers deeply. All Naipaul as a sensitive writer, has tried to the protagonists of his early fiction are explore the predicament of all of us who are existential human beings, who struggle hard more or less exiles in our own surroundings. to challenge all the odds of life which rather Joshi furthers her argument quite marginalize them in their efforts to establish convincingly when she writes: ―His ruthless their identity. A House for Mr. Biswas and adherences to his own dark vision, his Mr. Stone and the Knights’ Companion have refusal to pretend to an optimism he cannot not been considered because of the apolitical feel, give a compellingly persuasive power context in which they are set. to his depressing fictional world‖ (1994 XIII These novels have been written during – XIV). What is important for Naipaul is 1957-1967. We see that Naipaul is an that he is not pretentious in his descriptions engaging writer of fictional and non- and analyses even though there is an fictional writings. As a writer he is element of brutality in it. He is not even concerned with the condition of human optimistic for the sake of it. To him, what he world, their wretchedness, isolation and sees is tried; he is not interested in being rootlessness. Since Naipaul declares himself unnecessarily optimistic. That is why his that he does not belong to any country, character Salim utters in A Bend in the society or religion or culture, he is a man of River: ―The world is what it is: men who are the world. With his impartiality, he nothing, who allow themselves to become perceives a clear vision of human situations nothing, have no place in it. (Bend: 1). Even that are rather disturbing. Moreover, as his early novels underlie such a dark vision of the later works through their comic writer of fiction and travelogues he does not exuberance. follow the traditional forms. He thinks that the existing forms are inadequate to Naipaul writes in The Return of Eva Peron represent the complexities of the (1980): ―The great societies that produced contemporary human world. He is therefore the great novels of the past have cracked. iconoclastic in his approaches to both forms Writing has become more private and more of fictions and travelogues. Joshi rightly privately glamorous. The novel as a form no argues: ―Naipaul has himself insisted that a longer carries conviction‖ (218). Such a novelist‘s function goes beyond view was also expressed in the 1960s when documentary realism, that he must impose many believed that the novel was dead his vision on the world, not merely record because the novels as traditional form lost what he sees. He describes the novel as ‗a its vigour and appeal to the people in the Volume III Issue I: January 2015 (2) Editor-In-Chief: Prof. K.N. Shelke www.rersearch-chronicler.com Research Chronicler ISSN-2347-503X International Multidisciplinary Research journal New World. In a changing scenario of the which may coincide with the previous postcolonial people, the new materials for novel forms or under the impact of the the novel could not be incorporated in the new experiments, emerge as a completely transformed unit. The old form. Even Naipaul in his own life novel exists today, as much truthfully experimented with new materials in his as the sun blazes or the moon shines.
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