MIMICRY AND QUEST FOR IDENTITY: A STUDY OF ARVIND ADIGA’S THE WHITE TIGER | Zendy

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MIMICRY 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 (ijmr)

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

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