Vol. 12, Issue 5 (2023)

Author(s):
Shravan Kumar and Ambedkar Bodigadla

Abstract:
The first generation of writers, including Raja Rao, Mulk Raj Anand and R K Narayan, evoked social reality through epic novels. The representation of social reality has always beckoned authors, dramatists and poets throughout history. In fact, it is their commitment to bring to light the current social situation through their works. This is not an exception for Indian English writers. However, following colonialism, there was a second generation of Indian writers such as V S Naipaul, Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy, Kiran Deasi and Arvind Adiga who carved a niche in Indian Writing in English through their extraordinary novels. Many of them honored with the Man Booker Prize. The purpose of this paper is to investigate why people, who leave their homeland, particularly from third-world countries to first-world countries, feel like subalterns and continue to live as such even after they have immigrated to a transnational land. People who leave their home country lose their freedom, joy, and happiness, as well as their identity. It is for their presentation of contemporary issues such as identity crisis, hunger, poverty, unemployment, corruption, moral degeneration of self-centered societies, illiteracy, cultural hegemony, identity and so on. This paper attempts to discuss the portrayal of the subaltern which is prominent theme in Kiran Deasi’s The Inheritance of the Loss.