Interaction of Cultures in V.S. Naipaul’s A House for Mr. Biswas: A Postcolonial Study

ABSTRACT

Vidhyadhar Surjprasad (1932-1918), a leading novelist of the English-speaking Caribbean Island, is indelibly associated with colonial and post-colonial literature. His focus is on the deprivation of the men who have inherited history of exploitation. He has carved a niche for himself as an observer of the problems of the Third World. Much of the most exciting and important creative writing in English in recent decades has its genesis in the former British colonies, all now independent nation, which in one way or another, retail political, cultural and linguistic ties with Britain.  The present paper sheds ample light on the issue of the interaction of cultures in his novel A House for Mr. Biswas. It shows how here house is a symbol of one’s identity.

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