LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 20:1 January 2020
ISSN 1930-2940

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Human Relations in Kiran Desai’s Novels:
A Postmodern Analysis

Dr. Prakash Chandra Patel

This paper provides an in depth analysis as to how human relations in Kiran Desai’s novels are in tatters, and almost all of the characters suffer from isolation and alienation. Her first novel deals with the issues of human relations in a fabulist mode with the touch of humour and satire. The different levels of perceptions depicted through various characters in this novel show the mitigated realism of the world. Sampath’s perception of the world is beyond the understanding of others, and the peace, calm and serene atmosphere around him is mistakenly and purposely used as spirituality. In her second novel, Kiran Desai has presented a vivid and clear description of varied relations that are found in the society. With a parallel picture of these relations which are in fact a picture of Indian and Western version, it demonstrates that the impact of Western values in the form of globalization, multiculturalism, displacement or mass migration weaken the roots of human relations. Nevertheless, there are people who are very much careful about human relations and have skill set to use even a difficult situation, although not frequently, to good advantage in their best interests. Desai has portrayed a psychological and authentic picture of different shades of relations that the people experience in changing Indian society. The Inheritance of Loss tries to capture what it means to live between the East and the West and what it means to be an immigrant. On deeper level, it examines what happens when an element is introduced into a country that is not of the West. It also gives new light about the migration of people from poor country to the prosperous one and reveals how the imbalance between these two worlds impacts individuals’ life and their thought pattern.

Before analysing the human relations in Kiran Desai’s Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard and The Inheritance of Loss from the postmodernist point of view, the ideas associated with postmodernism may be discussed. In fact, postmodernism connotes a set of ideas and it is very difficult to define it in precise terms. More often than not, there are certain overlapping characteristics that one can see both in the postmodernism or postmodern literature and postcolonial literature. At times, postmodernism and postcolonialism coalesce while often they chart a different course.

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Dr. Prakash Chandra Patel
M.A. (English), M.A. (Linguistics), M.A. (Journalism and Mass Communication), M.Phil. (English)
Ph.D. (English), PGCTE, UGC- NET (English), UGC-NET (Linguistics)
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Kuchinda College, Kuchinda
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