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ISSN : 1226-4946(Print)
ISSN : 2288-5412(Online)
The Yeats Journal of Korea Vol.78 No. pp.177-190
DOI : http://dx.doi.org/10.14354/yjk.2025.78.177

Arvind Adiga’s The White Tiger as a Cultural Chimera: A Cultural Study

V. G. Manivannan
Assistant professor of English at Urumu Dhanalakshmi College (Affiliated with Bharathidasan University) located at Kattur, Trichy-620019, Tamilnadu, India

Abstract

This research article is a critical analysis of Aravind Adiga’s novel, The White Tiger. The study uses a few fundamental principles in cultural studies as tools of analysis. This paper tries to make a comprehensive list of cultural markers, indicators, codes, practices and the “structures of feeling” which involve meanings and values. The study finds that the discourse makes a strong resentment and transgressive opposition against the prevailing inequities and the socio-political hegemony. The narrative reveals a culture that is bereft of any living philosophy or ideology for the present milieu under the despesation of globalization. The text referes to two cultures, one in an area of Darkness and the other in the area of light. The analysis shows that both the areas live in darkness except that the darkness in the Light is a modified version of Darkness. The actions of the hero, Balram, shows a perversion of reality and the intensity of his actions is basically negative and destructive.

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