V. S. 나이폴의 『비스와스씨의 집』에 나타난 카리브해 지역 인도인의 ‘근대적 개인되기’의 의미
The Meaning of an East Indian’s Becoming a Modern Individual in Caribbean Society: V. S. Naipaul’s A House for Mr. Biswas
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This study explores the meaning of an East Indian’s becoming a modern individual in Caribbean society by analyzing V. S. Naipaul’s A House for Mr Biswas (1961). As one of Naipaul’s early Trinidadian novels, which particularly highlight the complicated aspects of the interaction between Western modernity and the ethnic, cultural, and political topography of the Caribbean, A House for Mr. Biswas portrays Trinidad and its East Indian society from the 1920s to the 1960s. During this period, the colonial domination of Europe was in decline in the Caribbean region and several countries were on the road to modernization politically and economically. Naipaul describes in detail the ways in which Caribbean society confronts and interacts with the influence of modernization by focusing on the Hindus who, from around 1838 onward, came to the Caribbean as indentured laborers. Mr. Biswas, the protagonist of A House for Mr. Biswas, struggles to establish himself as a modern individual in a feudalistic Hindu community. He ceaselessly attempts to possess his own house in order to separate himself from the Tulsis, a traditional, extended Hindu family he has unwittingly married into. His strenuous and bitter struggle to fashion himself as an individual symbolically reflects the period of time when Hindus acquired citizenship in Trinidad after a long isolation from the general society. Though the house finally obtained by Mr Biswas denotes an accomplishment, its coarseness and incompleteness indicate the instability of Caribbean societies after attaining political independence.
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This study explores the meaning of an East Indian’s becoming a modern individual in Caribbean society by analyzing V. S. Naipaul’s A House for Mr Biswas (1961). As one of Naipaul’s early Trinidadian novels, which particularly highlight the complicated aspects of the interaction between Western modernity and the ethnic, cultural, and political topography of the Caribbean, A House for Mr. Biswas portrays Trinidad and its East Indian society from the 1920s to the 1960s. During this period, the colonial domination of Europe was in decline in the Caribbean region and several countries were on the road to modernization politically and economically. Naipaul describes in detail the ways in which Caribbean society confronts and interacts with the influence of modernization by focusing on the Hindus who, from around 1838 onward, came to the Caribbean as indentured laborers. Mr. Biswas, the protagonist of A House for Mr. Biswas, struggles to establish himself as a modern individual in a feudalistic Hindu community. He ceaselessly attempts to possess his own house in order to separate himself from the Tulsis, a traditional, extended Hindu family he has unwittingly married into. His strenuous and bitter struggle to fashion himself as an individual symbolically reflects the period of time when Hindus acquired citizenship in Trinidad after a long isolation from the general society. Though the house finally obtained by Mr Biswas denotes an accomplishment, its coarseness and incompleteness indicate the instability of Caribbean societies after attaining political independence.
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