ISSN: 2360-7831

 International Journal of English Literature and Culture
 

International Journal of English Literature and Culture

Vol. 7(6), pp. 197-204, September, 2019

 ISSN: 2360-7831

DOI: 10.14662/IJELC2019.123

Review paper

The article sets out to interpret the different literary theories and perspectives in The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai. Further, it has explained the meaning of post-colonialism and analyzed the term “loss” in the title of the novel. Through the experience of being a diaspora, the author has shared the nostalgic feelings of immigration stating that it is not an easy venture to undertake as it requires leaving one’s family and friends and a country one was born in. The characters always felt a sense of not-belonging, alienation, dislocation, a great sense of loss, readjustment along with serious doubts about one’s decisions and a standstill between person’s sensible and logical understanding and their emotional upheavals. In this backdrop, the critical study of this novel becomes a meaningful tool to explore post-colonial theories with the changing notion of power- politics, gender and sexuality. This paper is an attempt to understand Kiran Desai’s work ‘The Inheritances of Loss’ with the focus to analyze “loss” in the title and critically analyze the literary theories and perspectives. The close reading technique is used to analyze the characters’ struggle and the novel had been viewed from various angles in order to find a space and question their self-identity.

Keywords: Post colonialism, Orientalism, Subaltern, Power-politics, Gender and Sexuality.

Cite This Article As: Wangmo (2019). Post Colonialism, Literary theories and perspectives in the novel ‘The Inheritance of Loss’.. Inter.  J. Eng. Lit. Cult. 7(6): 197-204