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- Title
Cross-Cultural Interactions in Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's Novels Esmond -- in India and A Backward Place.
- Authors
Selva Roja, S.
- Abstract
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala confines her attention to the Indian middle classes and the expatriates and her novels deftly ring the chimes on the same themes, tracing numerous permutations on family conflicts. The title and themes of the novels coincide with Jhabvala's different experiences in India. Esmond in India presents a new dimension in Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's creativity. The novel delineates a disaster in marital relationship between an Indian wife and an English husband. Life partners from two distinctly different cultural backgrounds obviously tend to feel the tensions, conflicts and marital misgivings. As a westerner who has close ties with the Indian family norms, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala realistically portrays the problems of Gulab. A Backward Place is a novel in which Jhabvala for the first time is more concerned with foreigners who happen to come to India. Jhabvala concentrates on their reaction and different attitudes toward the country. The western wife Judy puts up with all hardships and prepares for a battle against a backward place like India. The novel also deals with the different kinds of expatriates who feel differently about India, which is a "backward place" in the eyes of the Europeans. Jhabvala feels the ache at the heart of humanity. She is appreciative as well as critical of both the cultures.
- Subjects
JHABVALA, Ruth Prawer, 1927-2013; ESMOND in India (Book); BACKWARD Place, A (Book); INTERRACIAL marriage in literature; NONCITIZENS in literature
- Publication
Language in India, 2015, Vol 15, Issue 1, p321
- ISSN
1930-2940
- Publication type
Article