A STUDY ON THE TRAUMA OF BROKEN HEART IN KIRAN DESAI’S THE INHERITANCE OF LOSS

Author Name: M. Porkodi Chitra

Volume/Issue: 02/12

Country: India

DOI NO.: 08.2020-25662434 DOI Link: https://www.doi-ds.org/doilink/06.2022-66344641/UIJIR

Affiliation:

M.A Graduate, G. Venkataswamy Naidu College, Kovilpatti, Tamil Nadu

ABSTRACT

This article entitled “A Study on the Trauma of Broken Heart in Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss” discusses the traumatic experience of the settler who experiences the unpleasant experience in outsider land. Desai follows the aggravation, pathology, sadness and miseries of Indian workers in Europe. At first the section portrays and detail makes sense of the outsider experience of the Judge, Jemubhai Patel and furthermore it depicts how the harsh experience of the worker changes him into detests his own life, not exactly western culture and he needs to his encompassing individual to follow the western culture. He left his home town at the age of twenty and had been acknowledged at Cambridge to read up for the Indian Civil Service. Jembubhai dealt with as a more peculiar who doesn’t have a place in their own reality and the local area. Having encountered terrible separation in England, he currently observes he can’t make a spot for himself in India. He sent back to India by the White individuals fuelled in his spirit. The characters in the novel get wounded by their own life, and their tone are impacted by the host culture.

Key words: outsider, diaspora, migrant, encountered, and trauma.