The ‘Otherization’ of Diaspora Community in V.S. Naipaul’s A House for Mr. Biswas

Abstract

V. S. Naipaul is considered to be one of the most prominent expatriate novelists having first hand colonial experience in English literature. His novels deal with the colonial as well as postcolonial societies with an explicit account of the common complexities inherent among the marginalized societies. Naipaul’s work is commonly regarded as an implicit biography of his departure from the narrow background of the Caribbean island to the open cosmopolitan culture of the world at large. He carries three conflicting, at a time, interacting components in his personality of being a Trinidadian colonial, an English metropolitan, and a person of Indian ancestry.