Exploring The Alienation Theme Of V.s. Naipaul s A...

I propose to analyze the alienation theme of V.S. Naipaul’s â€Å"A House for Mr. Biswas† with an angle from cultural criticism which questions traditional value hierarchies and takes a cross disciplinary approach to works traditionally marginalized by aesthetic ideology of white European males or females. Instead of more attention to canon, cultural studies examine works by minority working ethnic groups and post-colonial writer, and the products of the folks, urban and mass culture, Popular literature, soaps, opera, rocks, rap music, cartoons, professionals, wrestling, food etc.----all within the domain of cultural criticism. I am focusing on it particularly as it concerns questioning the ways western cultural tradition expressed in literature defines itself partly by shifting the voices of oppressed groups or even by demonizing those groups. I will focus on how literary tradition was constructed against oppositional literary identities as alienation and how differen t communities of readers might interpret the same text differently due to varied value system of cultural conflict. V.S. Naipaul reflects, â€Å"Suppose that at one word I could just disappear from this room, what could remain to speak of me? A few clothes, a few books. The shouts and thumps in the hall would continue; the puja would be done; in the morning the Tulsi store would open its door.† V.S. Naipaul is a prolific Writer of fiction, stories and commentaries on contemporary events. Similarly writing on theShow MoreRelatedSir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul was born in Chaguanas, Trinidad, on seventeen August 1932, the3000 Words   |  12 PagesSir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul was born in Chaguanas, Trinidad, on seventeen August 1932, the eldest son of a second-generation Indian. He was educated at Queens Royal college, Trinidad, and, once winning a government scholarship, in European nation at University college, Oxford. He worked shortly for the BBC as a author and editor for the Caribbean Voices programme. hes a Noble Prize-winning British author acknowledged for the comic early novels of island, the bleaker later novels of the