This article discusses the food issues pertaining to South Asian immigrants’ interactions with West. Zadie Smith’s White Teeth and V.S. Naipaul’s The Enigma of Arrival constitute characters who are immigrants from Bangladesh India Trinidad England. Having Hinduism Islam as their religious roots, manifest traditional preferences, taboos wish change. For instance, a Muslim character averting pork...

Studies on comparative literature have been fragmentary concentrating one or two aspects of the thematic concerns novels without emphasizing concepts divergent and convergent intertextuality. This paper aims to revisit Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners re-reading it in dialogue with Naipaul’s novel Mimic Men. selected are controversial. Criticism deployed all fronts conveys pluralities oppositions ...

6 INTRODUCTION 7 o Towards a historiography of colonial psychiatry in the Caribbean 8 o Literature and madness 14 o Outline of the thesis 17 Chapter 1: Historical background 23 o A brief history of the lunatic asylum in Trinidad and British Guiana 23  Trinidad 24  British Guiana 29 o Robert Grieve: The Asylum Journal 1881 (-1886) 31  Humanitarian treatment of the insane 33  Insane bodies .....

Postkolonyal teori; edebiyat, antropoloji, tarih, psikoloji, sosyoloji gibi farklı disiplinlerden pek çok kavramı içinde barındıran eleştirel ve felsefi disiplinlerarası bir yapıdır. Edebiyat eleştirisinde postkolonyalizm, birçok toplumun ezildiği, görmezden gelindiği, yozlaşmış sömürge döneminin uzun süreli etkilerini edebiyat eserlerinde ortaya koymaktadır. Sömürgecilik, Batılı olmayan kimlik...

as a significant number of post-colonial writers have reread colonial masterpieces, the main purpose of the researchers in this study is a detailed analysis of among the believers by v. s. naipaul in the light of orientalism.this article is indeed a response to the representation of the orient, islam, and the islamic middle east in the west, in general, and in naipaul’s travel writing, in parti...