Post-Colonial and Diaspora traits in VS Naipaul’s A House for Mr.Biswas

Abstract

V.S Naipaul was a Nobel Laureate, a British writer of an Indian descent born in Trinidad when the Independence moment was at pinnacle. He is well-liked for his comic novels set in Trinidad. His published books are more than thirty, both of fiction, nonfiction. Naipaul’s first significant novel through which he received world- wide popularity is ‘A House for Mr. Biswas’, a tragicomic novel set in Trinidad in 1950 and published in the year 1961. Naipaul focuses on East Indian’s Struggle for an identity in Trinidad through a protagonist Mr.Biswas, a significant character in the novel around whom the whole story runs. As the novels proceeds, we can find different phases in Mr.Biswas life which in turn reminds reader the Post-Colonial and Diaspora characteristics in novel. This article concentrates on the two important facets ‘Post Colonial and Diaspora’ connecting the events in the novel ‘A House for Mr.Biswas’.

Key words: East Indian’s struggle, tragicomic, Post colonial, Diaspora.