The exploration of cultural diversity in Kiran Desai’s Book The Inheritance of Loss
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.29070/2m514w69Keywords:
Cultural diversity, colonial legacy, diaspora, globalization, MigrationAbstract
All around the world, cultural variety has become the norm in large cities. Multiculturalism is the blending of multiple cultures or the practice of diverse cultures within a boundary. One of the most prevalent characteristics of the anthropogenic era is now its cultural diversity. Global metropolises such as New Delhi, Bengaluru, Kolkata, Chennai, Mumbai, and others have embraced and successfully implemented multiculturalism. People in the world coexist and work together in different countries viz. England, France, and America. Paris, and New York. For a variety of reasons, people relocate from their home nation. Many strange atmospheres creep about them as soon as they arrive in a new country. They have a sense of rootlessness and loneliness. They are prone to feeling homesickness for their native land. They go through different sociocultural and psychological relocations in addition to the physical one. They are not a part of either their adoptive nation or their own country. The goal of this essay is to examine the multicultural themes in Kiran Desai's well-known book The Inheritance of Loss.
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