Exploration of Self A Comparative Culture Study of the Select Fiction Of Aravind Adiga and Kiran Desai

Abstract

The present dissertation is aimed at studying the exploration of self in the select fiction of newlineAravind Adiga and Kiran Desai along with a comparative culture study of their fiction. newlineAravind Adiga and Kiran Desai are the writers in the India under the impact of newlineglobalization, giving rise to awe-inspiring changes in the social, economic and cultural life newlineof the people. The present research work analyses the two novels titled The White Tiger newline(2008) and Last Man in Tower (2011) and a collection of stories Between the newlineAssassinations (2008) by Aravind Adiga and two novels by Kiran Desai titled Hullabaloo newlinein the Guava Orchard (1998) and The Inheritance of Loss (2006). newlineBoth these writers have been recognized at the international level by virtue of newlinedifferent awards, including the Man Booker Prize. They have delved deeper into the newlinecomposition of self by exposing the social, political, financial, psychological, historical newlineand cultural forces responsible. Exploration of self has been a preoccupation with Indians, newlinebe it Buddha, Gandhi or Vivekananda. The research takes into consideration the major newlinecharacters in the select fiction of Adiga and Desai, and investigates their personae newlineaccording to the social, temporal and spatial settings in the respective works. newlineThe second aspect of the research is comparative culture study, which is actualized newlineby analyzing the cultural components consisting in class, caste, family, occupational newlinegroups and interest groups; language, religion, race and gender; and economic system, newlineforms of government, values and norms, customs and traditions, rites and rituals, and newlinesymbols depicted in the select fiction of Aravind Adiga and Kiran Desai. newlineBoth these writers under the present study have furthered the development of newlineIndian fiction in English by focusing the subtleties of the self of man and illuminating the newlinedynamics of culture. Aravind Adiga has delineated the selves of the people belonging to newlinethe lower and lower middle class, whereas Kiran Desai has dealt with the issues of the newlinemiddle class and diaspora. They have shown insights into the Indianness of their creative newlineexpression by highlighting the social, political, financial and cultural constituents thereof newline