Volume I Special Issue I September 2021

Name of Author : Dr. Meena Sharma

Title of the paper : Voicing the Marginalized: A Reading of Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss

Abstract: The term Fourth World may be broadly applied to indicate the marginalized and oppressed sections of the world who fail to find recognition in the „mainstream‟ literatures of the world. In this context , this paper examines the portyal of one such marginalised group ,the Indian Nepalese or Gorkhas in the novel Inheritance of Loss2006 by the diasporic Indian writer Kiran Desai . The Gorkhas have always been a victim of Identity crisis . The Inheritance of Loss is set in the North eastern state of Kalimpong, India in1980s the hotbed of communal politics within a nation space that has evolved various types of discourses. The narrative focuses upon the political turmoil in which identities are negotiated through a collision of institutionalized national narrative with minority narrative as it‟s „discontents‟. The minority narrative on the other hand, emanates from the skepticism about this vision and raises the ethnic call for Gorkhaland for Nepalese. The paper would focus on the stereotypical attitudes of the dominant sections towards the Gorkhas as depicted in the novel.

Keywords : Fourth world, Marginalized, Gorkhas, Stereotypes

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