SEARCH OF SELF-IDENTITY AND CULTURAL RESTLESSNESS IN ALL ABOUT H. HATTERR BY G V DESANI - CRITICAL STUDY
The Info Anglican fiction in Post Independent India has assumed all kinds of colourful traditions. It has freed itself from the traditionalism and political overtones of a nationalistic variety. Indian literature in English has earned widespread reputation both in India and abroad. It has come to have a significant place in the world's literature. After Raja Tao, Milk Raj Anand and Kamala Markandya, a turn came to Indo Anglian novels. More and more novelists deal with an individual's search for identity; we study the themes concerning an individual character is being shown either unable to face or unwilling to accept the social role. The traditional and conventional society is apt to impose upon the character some conflicts, inner or outer. As a result the dramatic conflict arises out of the individual and Indian concept of supra- individual societies. We come across such themes in G V Desani's All About H. Hatterr, Kamasla Markandya's Possessions and Raja Rao's The Serpent and the Rope. In these novels, the psychological dimensions of this conflict form the centre of the story and interest, while the social, political or economic aspects are pushed into the background.