Cultural Displacement in V.S. Naipaul's A House for Mr. Biswas

The Batuk Pub Date : 2023-01-30 DOI:10.3126/batuk.v9i1.51903
S. B. Prasai
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This paper examines the literary text A House for Mr. Biswas in order to explore psychological, geographical, cultural and social alienation and displacement of the migrant people. It makes exploration of how the central character, Mohan Biswas makes the search for identity based on cultural root. Displacement gives birth to the feeling of rootness. Biswas is displaced again and again exclusively as well as inclusively. The people who migrate to other countries for any reason feel the nostalgia for their homeland left behind and a feeling of fear on the strange land that gives birth to the feeling of homelessness. The text explains the difficulties and psychological anguish which create the feeling of alienation and fragmentation within a person in the colonial world. The novel attempts to reveal the hardships of the postcolonial people, endure in their search for self- identity and self-esteem in Caribbean society. V.S. Naipaul presents his experience of dislocation through the central character, who struggles for survival and feels alienated, fragmented, dislocated, and rootless. So, this research paper explores Naipaul's experience of displacement and the struggle of the protagonist in the postcolonial milieu.
奈保尔《比斯瓦斯先生的房子》中的文化位移
本文以文学文本《比斯瓦斯先生的房子》为研究对象,探讨移民在心理、地理、文化和社会等方面的疏离和流离失所。它探讨了主人公莫汉·比斯瓦斯如何在文化根源的基础上寻找身份。位移产生了扎根的感觉。比斯瓦斯一次又一次地流离失所,这是排他性的,也是包容性的。移民到其他国家的人们,无论出于何种原因,都会对身后的祖国产生一种怀念,对陌生的土地产生一种恐惧,从而产生一种无家可归的感觉。这篇文章解释了在殖民世界中造成一个人的疏离感和分裂感的困难和心理痛苦。小说试图揭示后殖民人民在加勒比社会中寻找自我认同和自尊的艰辛。V.S.奈保尔通过主人公来呈现他的错位经历,主人公为生存而挣扎,感到被疏远、支离破碎、错位和无根。因此,本文探讨奈保尔的流离失所经历和主人公在后殖民环境中的挣扎。
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