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10 avril 2022
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Sneharika Roy, « The White Tiger: The Beggar’s Booker », Commonwealth Essays and Studies, ID : 10.4000/ces.8890
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This paper deals with the changing dynamics of postcolonial literature by focussing on the 2008 Man Booker Prize-winning novel, The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga. I argue that when placed in the context of Indian postcolonial fiction in English, Adiga’s novel can be seen on the surface as representing significant ruptures with existing paradigms of postcolonial literature. Further probing, however, reveals underlying continuities with the Indian postcolonial novel, in terms of thematic preoccupations as well as recurrent tropes. Studying these convergences and divergences will thus enable us to appreciate the reappraisals of postcolonial themes in a neocolonial context.