INTRODUCTION
The two major fall outs of cultural fissions are Acculturation and De culturation. Aculturation is defined as a positive stance, a comprehensive acceptance of the tenets of one culture into another, while De culturation is defined as, negative process, a dreadful distortion of one culture by another. It is not merely a clash causing of alienation, but it also affects the death of the spirit causing not merely a crisis of identity or existence, but denial of existence. Kamala Markandaya has delineated this facet of cultural interaction in the novels particularly ‘’Possession.’’
‘’India and England did never understand each other’’.
East -West confrontation as represented by India`s contact with Britain figures prominently in Kamala …show more content…
Almost all major Indian English novelist like Mulk Raj Anand, Raja Rao, Manohar Malgonkar, Bhavani Bhattacharya, Nayan Tara Sahgel, Anita Desai, Kamala Markandaya and Arun Joshi have diluted this dualism of culture in their different distinctive ways. Arun Joshi`s’’ The Foreigner’’, Kamala Markandaya`s ‘’The Nowhere Man’’, Santa Rama Rau`s’’ Remember The House,’’ Sarat kumar Ghos`’’ The Prince of Destiny ‘’ , Raju Rao`s ‘’The Serpent and the Rope’’ ,deal with the tension ensuing from de -cuturation. Anita Desai also shows her tangible concern with the multi-cultural situation in her novel ‘’, Cry The Peacock,’’. It is concerned with the disharmony and dissonance that disrupt the marital relationship between Maya and Gautama .’’ Bye Bye Black bird ‘’also reflects the disintegration due to de -culturation. De -culturation can be best understood in the light of the two related yet paradoxical terms `exile` and `home` .Home stands for the habitual abode ,it is where one belongs to ,it becomes the part of one`s cultural and spiritual identity .It stands for one`s native soil ,mother country, his security which becomes the part of his` Self `.Exile refers for enforced or regretted absence from one`s country or home .It is literally an uprooting and often as withering and it’s …show more content…
Markanday’s novel Possesion inacts this confict arises out of the possessive spirit of English cultures on the spiritual, natural self of the Indian society. In Possession the novelist depicts the inter-cultural tension and conflict between the materialistically possessive West and the spiritually non -possessive East between the secular and divine sources of art. “Kamala Markandaya is trying to make the story Caroline and Valmiki, a parabale of colonialism a passing of Empire and current insidious movement of neo-colonialism.”
Kamala Markandaya depicts the conflict between the East and the West and its impact on the relationship and at the end danger of de-culturation. Through her description of major characters like Caroline, Valmiki, Swami and Anasuiya, she depicts the cry of alienation which comes out of the British occupation of
The two major fall outs of cultural fissions are Acculturation and De culturation. Aculturation is defined as a positive stance, a comprehensive acceptance of the tenets of one culture into another, while De culturation is defined as, negative process, a dreadful distortion of one culture by another. It is not merely a clash causing of alienation, but it also affects the death of the spirit causing not merely a crisis of identity or existence, but denial of existence. Kamala Markandaya has delineated this facet of cultural interaction in the novels particularly ‘’Possession.’’
‘’India and England did never understand each other’’.
East -West confrontation as represented by India`s contact with Britain figures prominently in Kamala …show more content…
Almost all major Indian English novelist like Mulk Raj Anand, Raja Rao, Manohar Malgonkar, Bhavani Bhattacharya, Nayan Tara Sahgel, Anita Desai, Kamala Markandaya and Arun Joshi have diluted this dualism of culture in their different distinctive ways. Arun Joshi`s’’ The Foreigner’’, Kamala Markandaya`s ‘’The Nowhere Man’’, Santa Rama Rau`s’’ Remember The House,’’ Sarat kumar Ghos`’’ The Prince of Destiny ‘’ , Raju Rao`s ‘’The Serpent and the Rope’’ ,deal with the tension ensuing from de -cuturation. Anita Desai also shows her tangible concern with the multi-cultural situation in her novel ‘’, Cry The Peacock,’’. It is concerned with the disharmony and dissonance that disrupt the marital relationship between Maya and Gautama .’’ Bye Bye Black bird ‘’also reflects the disintegration due to de -culturation. De -culturation can be best understood in the light of the two related yet paradoxical terms `exile` and `home` .Home stands for the habitual abode ,it is where one belongs to ,it becomes the part of one`s cultural and spiritual identity .It stands for one`s native soil ,mother country, his security which becomes the part of his` Self `.Exile refers for enforced or regretted absence from one`s country or home .It is literally an uprooting and often as withering and it’s …show more content…
Markanday’s novel Possesion inacts this confict arises out of the possessive spirit of English cultures on the spiritual, natural self of the Indian society. In Possession the novelist depicts the inter-cultural tension and conflict between the materialistically possessive West and the spiritually non -possessive East between the secular and divine sources of art. “Kamala Markandaya is trying to make the story Caroline and Valmiki, a parabale of colonialism a passing of Empire and current insidious movement of neo-colonialism.”
Kamala Markandaya depicts the conflict between the East and the West and its impact on the relationship and at the end danger of de-culturation. Through her description of major characters like Caroline, Valmiki, Swami and Anasuiya, she depicts the cry of alienation which comes out of the British occupation of