THE POSTCOLONIAL CONDITION IN KIRAN DESAI'S THE INHERITANCE OF LOSS: Predicament of Migrants and Resistance of Minorities.
Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss (2006) juxtaposes two worlds--Kalimpong in India and New York in the US--and explores themes such as migration, alienation, globalization, multiculturalism, and, of course, neocolonialism. However, this article mainly focuses on how the novel encapsulates the pr...
| Publicado en: | Kritika Kultura no. 38; pp. 120 - 143 |
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