Handling of Cultural Conflict in the Novels of Arun Joshi: A Study of The Foreigner and The Strange Case of Billy Biswas

Abstract

The present study revolves around the theme of cultural conflict in Joshi’s novels especially The Foreigner and The Strange Case of Billy Biswas. His novels are specially woven in conflict – cultural and inner.  This paper is an endeavor to explore the cultural conflict and various problems of the modern man. Joshi’s novels are relevant to contemporary age and talk about the degraded soul of the civilized people and their setting of money mindedness. Here Joshi illustrates the internal and external conflicts of the human. Joshi depicts the root cause of conflict and its solution also in his novels.