Diasporic Pain in V.S. Naipaul’s The Enigma of Arrival

Abstract

The novelThe Enigma of Arrivalvividly shows the diasporictrauma of the narrator. His frustrations and agonies of the contemporary people, cultural loss, multiculturalism, rootlessness, dislocation and alienation are the consequences of hi diasporic condition. He expresses the ambivalence of the exile and the problem of a outsider, a feature of speaker's (the narrator's) own experience as an Indian in the West Indies, a West Indian in England and nomadic intellectual in a postcolonial world.