LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 15:12 December 2015
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
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Sufferings of the Uprooted Individuals:
A Study of Anita Desai’s Novels
Bye-Bye, Blackbird and Baumgartner’s Bombay

Mrs. V. Krishnaveni


Abstract

Anita Desai is one of the most remarkable women novelists, whose novels are concerned mainly with social and political themes of the East-West Encounter. Her serious concern is with the cross-cultural consciousness of her characters. She gives a graphic picture of the theme of immigration and alienation of the uprooted individuals in her novels Bye-Bye, Blackbird and Baumgartner’s Bombay. Dev in Bye-Bye, Blackbird and Hugo Baumgartner in Baumgartner’s Bombay become victims of these feelings of alienation. In the novel Bye-Bye, Blackbird (1971), the major character is Dev. The novel is based on the theme of immigration of native Indians who went to England; it deals with the theme of coloured immigrants in the U.K and presents their difficulties of adjustment there, as well as the sufferings of those who return to the native land, which is often complicated by inter-racial marriages. These uprooted individuals, Dev in Bye-Bye, Blackbird and Hugo Baumgartner in Baumgartner’s Bombay have constant identity crises and suffer from exile, alienation and humiliation largely on account of racial and cultural prejudices throughout the novels. This paper tries to capture the poignant moments of suffering and oppression that seem to crush the spirit of the immigrants.

Keywords: Baumgartner’s Bombay, Immigration, Indians, England, inter-racial marriages, racial prejudices, cultural differences, uprooted individuals

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