Open AccessMIMICRY AND QUEST FOR IDENTITY: A STUDY OF ARVIND ADIGA’S THE WHITE TIGER
Author(s) -
Subham Ghosh
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
epra international journal of multidisciplinary research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2455-3662
DOI - 10.36713/epra5337
Subject(s) - mimicry , identity (music) , white (mutation) , tiger , imitation , key (lock) , aesthetics , sociology , art , psychology , biology , computer science , social psychology , zoology , ecology , biochemistry , computer security , gene
In The White Tiger Arvind Adiga has portrayed a picture of India just after independence. Balram Halwai is the central character and this novel shows the struggle of Balram to make himself free from the “darkness”, establishing as a successful entrepreneur and thereby making his Identity. Mimicry of the colonizers is a very common thing in a colonized nation but this paper, through the examples of the characters in the novel, will show how the subjects of a colonized nation continue to imitate others even after the colonial rulers are gone and how through this imitation they constantly recreate their identity and seeks to find an establishment.KEY WORDS: mimicry, identity, postcolonialism, Arvind Adiga