KIRAN DESAI’S THE INHERITANCE OF LOSS AS A DIASPORIC NOVEL

Abstract

iran Desai, the daughter of Anita Desai occupies a unique place among the modern Indian Writers in English. She is one of the well-known Indian English Novelist. She was born on 3 Sept 1971 in New Delhi, India. She left Columbia University for several years to write her first novel Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard (1998). It received 1998 Betty Trask Prize from the British Society of Authors. She wrote second novel The Inheritance of Loss (2006). She won the booker prize award for this novel. Kiran Desai is an established diasporic writer of Indian origin. In her fictions, She presents Indians as protagonists. Her novels generally narrate about Indian immigrants who struggle to settle in an alien country usually America. The Inheritance of Loss is an exception among all her novels as it is written in Indian background. The objective of this paper is to analyze The Inheritance of Loss as a novel dealing primarily in diaspora. As a diasporic writer, she exposes all the diasporic elements like marginalization, cultural insularity, nostalgia, alienation, quest for identity and assimilation in her work.