Paper IV Postcolonial Indian Novel

 Postcolonial Indian Novel

        Post-colonial literature is a body of literary writings that react to the discourse of colonization. A large number of Indians use the English language as a medium of creative expression. Postcolonialism can be defined as literature written by colonized and formerly colonized peoples. R.K. Narayan, Mulk Raj Anand, and Raja Rao tried their best to give a new identity to Indian writings in English. Writers like Salman Rushdie, Anita Desai, and Kamala Markandaya had chalked out a plan to alter the map of post-colonial Indian English literature. In this paper, we discussed the writings of Kamala Markandaya, Khushwant Singh, Salman Rushdie, Bhabani Bhattacharya, Ruth Prawar Jhabvala Anita Desai, and Arundhati Roy on the map of Post Colonial English Fiction. 

            The term Post Colonialism is a critical theory that focuses colonial experience from the colonized society’s point of view. The term Post Colonial came after the term ‘Colonial’ which was based on the theory of the superiority of European culture or imperial culture and the rightness of the empire.

                Indian writing in English has acquired great significance in recent years not only in India but all over the world. A large number of Indians use the English language as a medium of creative expression. Postcolonialism can be defined as literature written by colonized and formerly colonized peoples. In this paper we are going to discuss the writings of Kamala Markandaya, Khushwant Singh, Salman Rushdie, Bhabani Bhattacharya, Ruth Prawar Jhabvala, and Arundhati Roy on the map of Post Colonial English Fiction R.K.Narayan, Mulk Raj Anand and Raja Rao tried their best to give a new identity to Indian writings in English. A new group of writers has arrived at the Indian scenario, for example, Anita Desai, Kamala Markandaya, Arun Joshi, Salaman Rushdi, Shobha De, Shashi Deshpande, and Arundhati Roy.

                Arundhati Roy has also written about injustice in her non-fiction writing. She has touched the subject like social justice, human right, untouchability, and international politics. In her novel ‘The God Of Small Things’ she performs the responsibility of writer and activist. She focuses on gender bias mess and class and caste inequalities. Through this novel, Roy clearly shows herself as a writer and a social activist.

                Thus Indian English writers have highlighted Post Colonial issues like the darkness of ignorance, illiteracy, starvation, suffering, and humiliation in more specific ways. This work is significant in making society aware of people’s demands and providing a medium for self-expression. Thus Post Colonial Indian literature reflects the experiences of native people in the colonial period through various forms either novels, poems and other forms of literature.

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