Destitute Indians at the Crossroad: Auctioned Body Parts in Padmanabhan’s Harvest and Doomed Wealth in Sharma’s The Plebian Rag’s
Sitting under the shadow of the cataclysmic British rule for close to two centuries, during which British or western lifestyle was imposed on almost every fabric of Indian life, many Indian literary authors present characters whose excruciating economic malaise and yearning for western technology po...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2015
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Cultural and religious studies
Year: 2015, Volume: 3, Issue: 2, Pages: 84-91 |
| Further subjects: | B
dissention
B Destruction B Colonialism B destitute B Organs B Temptation B Culture B Materialism |
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| Summary: | Sitting under the shadow of the cataclysmic British rule for close to two centuries, during which British or western lifestyle was imposed on almost every fabric of Indian life, many Indian literary authors present characters whose excruciating economic malaise and yearning for western technology pollute and wreck their cultural heritage and identity. The anxious and susceptible characters of Indian authors are prone to western temptations, enticements, which they misconstrued for a bridge to prosperity and tranquility. Besieged by a grim choice of abject poverty and corrosive wealth devoid of cultural dignity, Manjula Padmanabhan’s characters in Harvest and Sunil Sharma’s characters in The Plebian Rag’s desperately spurn or embrace western lifestyle with its attendant consequences. |
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| ISSN: | 2328-2177 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Cultural and religious studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.17265/2328-2177/2015.02.002 |