| Abstract: | A House for Mr. Biswas is an account of an individual life and an allegory of the East Indian＇s situation in Trinidad. Actually, be they eastern or western, critics＂ studies mainly focused on the portrayal of the protagonist Mr. Biswas in the angle of marginality, exile, identity, etc. Seldom did critics involve in systematic discussion of female characters. Thus this essay analyses Shama fi＇om postcolonial feminist perspective, which is also called feminism in the Third World, trying to probe into the condition encountered by the Trinidadian Indian women.
This essay first briefly introduces the background of this masterpiece＇s creation; and then it probes into the dilemma encountered by Shama with her Tulsis Family and her husband; finally, it safely draws a conclusion and also points out the loopholes in this essay and provides further research fields. |
