TY - JOUR ID - 67462 TI - Alienated Modernity in Post-Independence Indian English Fictions JO - Journal of Garmian University JA - JGU LA - ku SN - 23100087 AU - Muhamad Salih, Salar Mahmud AD - English Dept., College of Education, University of Garmian, Kalar, Kurdistan Region, Iraq Y1 - 2018 PY - 2018 VL - 5 IS - 4 SP - 376 EP - 385 KW - Post-colonialism KW - post-Independence KW - alienated KW - dilemma KW - Tradition KW - modernity KW - Indian culture DO - 10.24271/garmian.421 N2 - The study hypothesizes the existence of impacts of Western culture through Englishcolonialism and Language on Indian life which caused an alienated dilemma inembracing the modernity, and that opposes the universal understanding thatconsiders accepting modernity by the colonized people is very easy and a matterof time! In fact in the era of globalization, no society can resist the influence of aliencultures, but still some regions incapable of being familiarized with it. IndianEnglish fiction refers to the body of work by writers in India who write in Englishlanguage and whose native or co-native language could be one of the numerouslanguages of India. It is also associated with the works of members of the Indiandiasporic fiction writers, such as Anita Desai (b.1937), Raja Rao (1908-2006),Arundhati Roy (b.1961), Salman Rushdie (b.1947), and Amitav Ghosh (b.1956).The study, thus, tries to tackle the selected quotes from the fictions of above namedauthors whom attempt their efforts to depict the postcolonial emphasis on the processof colonialization and the record of a strong resistance to the masters of thecolonized societies with the insisting on contemporary realities of life, besides theaccepting and assimilating of some to adopt the modernity as a new traditionalculture which accompanies by certain events. The study also adopts Edward Said'stheory of Orientalism to go through the topic in uncovering its hypotheses, and itfollows the MLA style to the process of documentation as well. UR - https://jgu.garmian.edu.krd/article_67462.html L1 - https://jgu.garmian.edu.krd/article_67462_75950b4721814df7e6b7d3d6e9cf7a92.pdf ER -