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Spread over continents, countries and cultures, Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss (2006) takes us on a tour de force into the realms of multiculturalism and hybridity in Indian culture. It focuses on the changing face of India, amidst East West encounter, globalization and glocalization. The novel as a postcolonial text puts forth, the authority politics of cultural imperialism, even after the independence of India. This paper appraises the novel using Homi. K. Bhabha’s theory of mimicry, hybridity and ambivalence. It concentrates on the mimic man of the novel Judge Jemubhai Patel. This paper focuses on the hybridization of culture along with the making of reformed hybrids who are in a constant conflict with their identity, language and culture on account of the praxis between the culture of the colonized and the colonizer during and after colonization of the colonized. This paper recommends proper mapping of mimicry and hybridity with indigenous culture, values and ethics. It advocates sowing and stringing in cultural amalgamation and westernization in indigenous Indian culture and ethos for a better life and better Indian society.
基兰·德赛(Kiran Desai)的《失落的继承》(The Heritage of Loss,2006)跨越各大洲、国家和文化,带领我们深入印度文化的多元文化和混合领域。它关注的是印度在东西方相遇、全球化和全球化中不断变化的面貌。小说作为一个后殖民文本,提出了文化帝国主义的权威政治,甚至在印度独立之后。本文用《Homi》来评价这部小说。K.Bhabha关于模仿、混杂和矛盾心理的理论。它聚焦于小说《法官杰穆拜·帕特尔》中的模仿者。本文着重于文化的杂交,以及由于被殖民者和被殖民者在被殖民者殖民化期间和之后的文化实践,与他们的身份、语言和文化不断冲突的改良混血儿的形成。本文建议将模仿和混合与本土文化、价值观和伦理进行适当的映射。它主张在印度土著文化和精神中播种和串接文化融合和西化,以实现更好的生活和更好的印度社会。
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English is an internationally known journal of literary criticism, published on behalf of The English Association. Each issue contains essays on major works of English literature or on topics of general literary interest, aimed at readers within universities and colleges and presented in a lively and engaging style. There is a substantial review section, in which reviewers have space to situate a book within the context of recent developments in its field, and present a detailed argument. English is unusual among academic journals in publishing original poetry. This policy embodies the view that the critical and creative functions, often so widely separated in the teaching of English, can co-exist and cross-fertilise each other.