State of Displacement in V.S. Naipauls A Bend in the River

Name of Author : M Naveena Rani

Abstract: The post-colonial novel A Bend in the River was written by Nobel Laureate V.S.Naipaul. As a writer Naipaul descended from Hindu Indians who had moved to Trinidad as an indentured labourer and left Trinidad to attend the University of Oxford. Later, he settled in England. V.S.Naipaul himself suffered from various displacement. The novel depicted how each and every characters suffered due to displacement in the recently decolonized world. The narrator and Protagonist Salim from Muslim Indian descent, but his family lived in coastal Africa. So he couldnt connect himself as neither fully Muslim Indian nor fully African. He felt diffident and endangered in the post-colonial Africa.

Keywords : Post-colonial, Indentured, Displacement, Diffident, And Endangered

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