Post Colonial Identity in the selected novels of V.S. Naipaul a Critical Study

<p>V. S. Naipaul's work as a novelist, travel writer, and<br>journalist provides a case study for examining the evolution<br>of the links between realist form and the global imagination<br>over a 60-year span. Naipaul's identity has been portrayed<br>as incomplete and totally hybrid, as it is the result of a mix of<br>cultures: Indian, Caribbean, English, Diasporic, postcolonial,<br>and colonial. These and other labels have had a significant<br>and lasting impact on Naipaul's mental state of being, raising<br>the question of his identity or position of belonging in today's<br>aware intellectual world. In Naipaul's works, there has<br>always been a sense of diaspora and estrangement. This<br>research paper examines Naipaul as a product of the World<br>of literature, whose literary path has been one of admitting<br>his belongingness and location, as well as a crisis of cultural<br>identity, using the junction of 'diasporic' and 'postcolonial'<br>theories. It is to give a more differentiated and definitive<br>picture of V. S. Naipaul as an "epitome" of colonial and<br>postcolonial identity, such as the intersection of identities<br>inside one identity.</p>