Postmodernism In Adiga's The White Tiger

This paper try to understand whether Western Postmodernism one can find in writing of Indian writer after Post Rushdie in general and Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger in particular

Postmodernism is a vital tool in aspects of drastic change in twentieth-century theories. It’s a reaction of Modernism and Modernism is seen as breaking away from the Victorian Tradition. Postmodernism is scenarios after world war ll postmodernism According to Philip Rice and Patricia Waugh, “The historian Arnold Toynbee first used the term in 1947 to describe the current, fourth and final phase of western history, dominated by anxiety and irrationalism.” (Rice, 67)

Rice, Philip, and Waugh, Patricia. Modern Literary Theory – A Reader, Edward Arnold, Second Edition, USA,1992.Print. It has always remained a problem of countless questions that either postmodernism is applicable to IWE or not! Even Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children is seen as a cautious imitation of the western literary model by few critics. But on the other hand with the emergence of the nineties, the nature of Indian reality and society transformed due to drastic changes in cultural, political, social, and familial patterns. Post- Rushdie generation has

After that, he has joined Times where he remains as a South Asian correspondent for three years. The notable thing here was Adiga wrote the review of Booker Prize winner Peter Carey for his book Oscar and Lucinda and it was published as an online literary review The Second Circle. He was doing the job of Journalist but his heart was still in English Literature. After this, he worked for Times as a journalist. In this time his passion for Literature comes out on the page here he has started writing The White Tiger. After writing the first draft of The White Tiger he did not think it is worth to publish it but after rewriting he publish it as well as won Booker Prize in