The Dynamic Tales of Ravi’s Expedition in the Novel the Return: - A Study

Abstract

In general way, personal ideas or thoughts of real-world life does not look in nuanced manner by directly expressing it in literature form, irrespective of any language. Here the author of this novel K.S. Maniam tries to explain his anecdotes in the form of fiction, though whole plot of this work looks like an autobiographical genre, but this is the author’s forethought shrewd beauty and eye-catching gesture for the readers. Here the main protagonist Ravi’s fate is complicated by colonialist interventions, plotted within the frame of an autobiographical, but sensuous, disturbing and multidimensional narrative, organized in the form of a Bildungsroman. While the novel follows the moral, psychological and intellectual development of its narrator protagonist Ravi the author’s doppelganger, it also charts the roller-coaster “journey” of the larger Indian community in Malaysia: their ups and downs, sorrows and rejoicing of experience, both before and after the nation independence in 1957. This novel (The Return) also talks about tamil Indian ethnicity in the Malaysian countryside lifestyle. It is the authors first novel which mainly deals with cultural struggle and identity. Literary theory concepts like colonialism, postcolonialism, existentialism, hybridity, feminism, diasporic, etc. are nicely explained in this article.