Multicultural Identities in the Novels of Anita Desai; Kiran Desai and V. S Naipaul

In the domain of postcolonial literature, different ethnic groups, based on their different original cultural heritages, have their ethnic, cultural, and historical backgrounds. The present book entitled Multicultural Identities in the Novels of Anita Desai, Kiran Desai and V.S. Naipaul is a serious attempt to explore the various facets of cultural dislocation, migration, multiculturalism and the existential problem of settlement. It aims to explore diasporic issues such as quest for home, individual identity, construction of subjectivity or otherness, complexity of colonial predicament, rupture of identity definition, sense of alienation of diaspora and so on. The author takes up the socio-cultural perspective to explore the various cross-currents and ethnic pluralities discussed by Kiran Desai, Anita Desai and V.S. Naipaul.