ALTHOUGH it focuses on the fate of a few powerless individuals‚ Kiran Desai’s extraordinary new novel manages to explore‚ with intimacy and insight‚ just about every contemporary international issue: globalization‚ multiculturalism‚ economic inequality‚ fundamentalism and terrorist violence. Despite being set in the mid-1980’s‚ it seems the best kind of post-9/11 novel. "The Inheritance of Loss" opens with a teenage Indian girl‚ an orphan called Sai‚ living with her Cambridge-educated Anglophile
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Treatment of Diaspora in Kiran Desai’s “Inheritance of Loss” Table of Content 1. Title 2. Statement of Problem 3. Hypothesis 4. Literature Review 5. Methodology 6. Chapter Division 7. Delimitation 8. Bibliography 1. Title Treatment of Diaspora in Kiran Desai’s “Inheritance of Loss” 2. Statement of Problem Why does Kiran Desai present Nepali speaking Kalimpongians in a bad light? 3. Hypothesis Diaspora
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Kiran Desai is the daughter of Indian author‚ herself short-listed for Booker Prize on three occations. Her first novel Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard which was published in 1998 and won the Betty Trask Award was given by the Society of Authors for the best new novels by citizens of the Commonwealth of Nations under the age thirty five. Her second novel The Inheritance of Loss (2006) was widely praised by many critics around the world such as‚ Asia‚ Europe and United States. And also she was awarded
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As might be expected from the rich input of her cultural background‚ Kiran Desai‚ daughter of the author Anita Desai is a born story-teller. Her first novel‚ Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard (1998)‚ is a fresh look at life in the sleepy provincial town of Shahkot in India. At 35 years old‚ Desai is the youngest woman ever to win the prize and was already highly acclaimed in literary circles for her first novel ‘Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard’ which won a Betty Trask award [2] when it was published
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“He knew he was a foreigner but he had lost the notion that he was anything but an Indian foreigner...”( 220). Though Desai describes a majority of Nepalese living in Kalimpong area‚ she does not speak about any mutual influences between Indians and Nepalese. There are no influences mentioned except for the fact that Nepalese were disadvantaged by the Indians. Western influence was found among many people and the Eastern culture did not influence as the western. Most of the characters
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BOOK REVIEW: THE INHERITANCE OF LOSS BY JITEN KAKAR The inheritance of loss is the second novel by Indian author Kiran Desai. The novel was first published in 2006 and won man booker prize in 2007. The book has many diverse characters but one can easy relate to all the characters unlike many novels where characters don’t have much real life traits. But I found it annoying that many characters with senseless names keep popping up with no purpose like Uncle Potty (translate: Uncle Shit)‚ and Major
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Desai‚ K. (2006). The inheritance of loss. New York: Grove Press. “The Inheritance of Loss” opens with a teenage Indian girl who is an orphan named Sai. She is living with her grandfather‚ a retired judge‚ in the town of Kalimpong part of the Indian Himalayas. The grandfather is a Cambridge-educated Anglophile. Sai is romantically involved with her math tutor‚ Gyan. He is the descendant of a Nepali Gurkha mercenary so their love seems uncertain from the beginning. He eventually recoils from her
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The Inheritance of Loss Literary Analysis I. Character Cook: 1. His wife dies by slipping from a tree while gathering leaves for their goat. 2. Sacrifices a chicken in order to save Biju from being taken by his deceased mother. 3. Tries to send Biju abroad for the first time when a recruiting agent from a cruise ship line comes to Kalimpong. 4. Succeeds in sending Biju to the United States with a tourist visa. 5. Brags all over Kalimpong that Biju is successful in America‚ even though it isn’t true
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empathy for the experiences of others. Both NoViolet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names (2013) and Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss (2006) explore the migrant experience with the purpose of creating a deeper understanding of the difficulties of assimilation. We Need New Names examines the choice for a successful assimilation into American society over retaining cultural heritage‚ while The Inheritance of Loss evokes empathy through the protagonist’s failure to assimilate as a result of a lack of support
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Book reviews: Literature of the Indian Diaspora edited by O.P. Dwivedi. Vivek Kumar Dwivedi. Transnational Literature Vol. 4 no. 2‚ May 2012. http://fhrc.flinders.edu.au/transnational/home.html O.P. Dwivedi‚ Literature of the Indian Diaspora (Pencraft International‚ 2011) Literature of the Indian Diaspora constitutes a major study of the literature and other cultural texts of the Indian diaspora. It is also an important contribution to diaspora theory in general. Applying a theoretical framework
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