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Crossing the Borders Transgressive Boundaries in the World of V. S. Naipaul
(UMT, Lahore, 2020) Humaira Kalsoom
This study analyses the trope of border/border crossing and transgression in the fictional and non-fictional works of V.S. Naipaul aptly highlighting the challenges faced by postcolonial nations also inhibitive to their progress. Foremost among them is how to negotiate with Western values and increasing phenomenon of globalization, while retaining whatever is supposedly pristine in their cultures. It is incumbent to explore how Naipaul has been engaged with such a negotiation that may lead to hybrid/third space and mestiza consciousness along with a textual analysis of his writing for retrieving an element of dialogic construction, as proposed by Bakhtin. Naipaul’s fictional and non-fictional works named A House of Mr. Biswas; The Mimic Men; An Area of Darkness; India: A Wounded Civilization; India: A Million Mutinies Now; Among the Believers and Beyond Belief are the culminations of the dilemmas faced by an immigrant soul that is nearest to crossing the borders and creating new boundaries for the self through a unique form of transgression. The purpose of invoking both fictional and non-fictional works is to look into Naipaul’s life inside Trinidad and outside of the Caribbean. Cogently, attached is an analysis of hybridity/mestiza consciousness phenomena in a comprehensive way as the significance of this sort has increased over time