Post colonial and Modernity in Aravind Adigas The White Tiger

Name of Author : M. Gunaseeli

Abstract: Postcolonial studies have often based their critics of colonialism on critics of modernity. This paper focuses on postcolonial theorys engagement with modernity. In seeking to question the predatory universalism of western modernity, postcolonial theory aspires to open up paths for different modernities that have the promise of emancipation and liberation for all cultures and societies. But the root of this paper is that this promise is hardly fulfilled. Using critical realism, it interrogates postcolonialisms understanding of modernity. Modernity is one of the central concepts of sociology.

Keywords : modernity, postcolonial theory, postcolonialism and identity

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