Allegory In Hullabaloo's Novel

Hullabaloo 's focus is narrow and local, its allegorical implications encode the processes of globalization and resistance to it into the novel. Thus, the novel can be read as an example of national literature, which uses the discontinuous nature of allegory to critique the de-differentiating practices of globalization and the specter of difference that accompanies these practices. Desai uses the return of Coca-Cola to India to illustrate the effects of multinational companies on the social and ecological landscapes of the Global South. Desai depicts a biting satire of the nutty situations which go against the way things usually work. On a social respective, the novel mainly deals with two dominant dimensions in Indian life, gender oppression and caste system, which are handed down over centuries. The novel depicts a marvelous incident in a small town in India, Shahkot. Sampath, the leading role of the story, works at the back desk in the Shahkot post office. Sampath is quite unharmonious with his surroundings, so he invariably dreams of a place that comforts and belongs to him. The text often reveals the foreshortening of history so that the time scheme of the novel metaphorically contains the long process of colonization and its aftermath. The sensitive socio-political issues concerning hybridity, insurgency, immigration, intercultural communication, identity crisis, loneliness, multiculturalism, poverty, racial discrimination, social realism, and search for home also