Cultural Imperialism and the Indo-English Novel focuses on the
novels of R. K. Narayan, Anita Desai, Kamala Markandaya, and Salman
Rushdie and explores the tension in these novels between ideology
and the generic fictive strategies that shape ideology or are
shaped by it. Fawzia Afzal-Khan raises the important question of
how much the usage of certain ideological strategies actually helps
the ex-colonized writer deal effectively with postcolonial and
postindependence trauma and whether or not the choice of a
particular genre or mode employed by a writer presupposes the
extent to which that writer will be successful in challenging the
ideological strategies of "containment" perpetuated by most Western
"orientalist" texts and writers. She argues that the formal or
generic choices of the four writers studied here reveal that they
are using genre as an ideological "strategy of liberation" to help
free their peoples and cultures from the hegemonic strategies of
"containment" imposed upon them. She concludes that the works
studied here constitute an ideological rebuttal of Western writers'
denigrating "containment" of non-Western cultures. She also notes
that self-criticism, as implied in Rushdie's works, is not be
confused with self-hatred, a theme found in Naipaul's work.
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