Theory Of V.s. Naipaul Works In India "mixed" Image

Because of Naipaul’s special life experience, he has mixed culture background and multi-cultural identities. Naipaul cannot excape from Trinidad complex, descent from Indian, impact of learning, working and living experience in the sovereign state, which make him have multi-cultural identity. In that case, he is viewd as "Trinidad Indians "," India’s overseas son "," Trinidad in the UK",""rootless writer","the world’s writers" etc. by many scholars.Naipaul’s work describes many "mixed people " image. Naipaul’s work is categorized according to geospatial background by this dissertation and it studys Trinidad India mixed image and the Western world India "mixed people" image as well as analyzes their material and spiritual living conditions.Meanwhile,this dissertation views Naipaul’s India trilogy,that is, India trilogy as a whole to explore the link between India’s "mixed people" with India.This dissertation is divided into three chapters to study India "mixed people" image in Naipaul’s work by the method of close reading and post-colonial theorists’ theories,such as, Edward Said, Homi Baba, Spivak. The first chapter, refering to Trinidad,Naipaul’s birthplace, and his collection of short stories Miguel Street, analyzes the image of the India’s "mixed people"in the West Indies. They just like other "mixed people" on this island, staying the marginalized situation on the material and spiritual life. Their home nation’s culture is forgotten gradually, while they suffer from the invasion of foreign cultures continuously. No matter how they struggle, this kind of India "mixed people"’s life is a tragedy. chosing a typical image, Gan Niesha in The mystic masseur, applys Homi Baba’s "hybridization theory" to analyze the image who mixs the Eastern and Western cultures successfully. The second chapter,chosing Lonely People and Tell me, kill and The Enigma of Arrival,deeply analyses India’s "mixed people" conditions who are in diasporic situation in Western world. Sang Shituo,the hero of Lonely People,who follows his employer from Mumbai to United States. When the crash between home country culture and foreign cultures happens, he losts himself in this kind of cultural differences and the sense of alienation and contradiction in sprit makes them lost pure "free". The Enigma of Arrival, Naipaul’s autobiographical novel, the hero’s experience is similar to the author himself. Since he lives and works in the UK, the hero accepts Western civilization and the sovereign culture gradually. For him, the culture of the sovereign state is the source of his culture and the mother of his culture, so he holds a conciliatory attitude towords colonists, although he still cannot be able to get rid of the sense of alienation as a "outsider" in deep heart. Chapter III, chosing Naipaul’s India trilogy, finds out the link between India’s "mixed people"(including the author himself)and and Indian.Because of impact of their descents, this sort of people want to get close to their homeland on the one hand,and alienate from their homeland on the other hand, although they may have left India or never go to there. India’s "mixed people" who are in Trinidad want to keep the tradition of India while they already have had difference from India in habits and religious. In terms of author himself,since he has infected with the Western worldview, has a ambivalent attitude towards his mother nation,that is, getting close to it and alienating it. As a Indian descent, he cannot deny Indian influence but virtually, he has a significant difference with the native Indian people.Although the issue of Naipaul’s cultural identity has studied by many scholars, the study about hybridity in his works is not sufficient and systematic. In the era of globalization and multiculturalism, what we study on India "mixed people" image in Naipaul work has some practical significance.