Excremental post-colonial vision in V.S. Naipaul's The Suffrage of Elvira

Abstract

In the novel The Suffrage of Elvira, V. S. Naipaul depicts the ironic situation of the election in Trinidadian district Elvira in postcolonial situation. The people are full of doubt over the democracy and its benefits in coming days as they have never experienced the democratic situation. Their cultural values have been the admixture of the multiple other values and they lack the distinct values and they have become directionless. Such bitter ironic condition is the excremental condition that has been mocked by the writer in the novel. Mimicry is visible throughout and thus, the novel is giving the excrement the form of the words so that the excrement loses its odor. The novel, thus, has been the best example of excremental vision.