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- Title
An Indian Bull in the American China Shop.
- Authors
Dani, N. D.
- Abstract
Mr Dev, a man of fifty-something, with an incorrigibly romantic heart and strange notions about the land of Uncle Sam - which he has picked up from his stray reading of books from or about America - gets a chance to visit USA. Being a bumbling type and having little understanding of the rules of life in the West, he blunders, fumbles, stumbles and finds himself frequently caught in funny situations, one after the other. Frequently mistaking the American way of life for what it is not, he makes a complete fool of himself. This is the fictionalized real-life account of an Indian who stares, gawk-like with his mouth agape at a world which to his Indian sensibility is confusing and perplexing but replete with doubtful promises of a romantic/ erotic kind. Not having much understanding of how to behave in a new country, he sometimes comes in for mild but cold disapproval at the hands of his American hosts. His bewilderment ends only with his taking his flight back home on Air India flight.
- Subjects
NOTIONS (Philosophy); VOYAGES &; travels; COMPREHENSION; MODERNIZATION (Social science); LIFESTYLES; HOSPITALITY; INDIANS (Asians)
- Publication
Labyrinth: An International Refereed Journal of Postmodern Studies, 2013, Vol 4, Issue 3, p208
- ISSN
0976-0814
- Publication type
Article