Identity Crisis and Pangs of Rootlessness In “A House for Mr. Biswas”

Abstract

Quest for identity has been a drive common to all species. Being more advanced in the process of evolution humans craves more for self actualization and recognition. Post colonial fiction gave voice to this drive, intensified due to Migration or Displacement.Migrants  are  often found struggling with the problem of ‘Identity  crisis.As we know that writers play a major role to present the mirror of society and Indian-English diasporic writers have  successfully presentedthe struggle and fight of migrated people . Thus this paper deals with the above subject with special reference to the work of V.S Naipaul. The term “identity crises “basically refers to ‘Human Psychology’.