The Legacy of Colonialism in Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss

Abstract

Generally, the writers from nonwestern world try to question the misrepresentation of the “Orient” in the so called universal canonicity of western metropolis in which they critique the follies of the colonialism. Being a post colonial writer, Kiran Desai in her novel attempts to valorize the decaying relic of colonialism in the Indian societies by demoralizing the voices of those who are long suppressed, dejected and isolated by either from the privilege of the state ownership or from the abject poverty. Obviously, an Indian origin American writer should have contributed for the apt representation of her homeland rather than eroticizing and amplifying the poverty and backwardness of Nepalese and Indians. This research paper comes to the significant result that a writer despite of his/her nonwestern origin can be highly influenced from the legacy of colonialism even in the Post Colonial era. Thus, this paper will help to understand the underlying mechanism of third world writer and the interrelationship of colonialism and post colonialism.