Research Article | Open Access
Lack of Cultural Roots in V. S. Naipaul’s Novels
N.GOPI KRISHNA
Pages: 2477-2486
Abstract
The society that V.S. Naipaul came from was a colonial society, originally a slave society to which, later Asians went. There was a double inferiority about it: the slave society which created nothing, which depended for everything on the master society - and the Asiatic living in this closed society of myth. For an individual so very doubly removed, the societal structure represented in European literature holds no association or relationship with the immediate surroundings of a colonial from a slave society.
Keywords
association, colonial, myth, population, reaction, relationship, society