PORTRAYL OF RUTH PRAWER’S NOVEL HEAT AND DUST AS AN ETHNOCENTRIC PRESENTATION OF EASTERN WORLD

Abstract

When the people from two different cultures and groups try to mingle together for any social, political or domestic needs, their differences develop the shape of biased and prejudice behavior towards the norms of the other. Without any discontinuity, these have been there between the western and Indian community. This research tends to explain and analyze Ruth Prawer’s novel Heat and Dust through the tendency of Ethnocentric attitude of West towards East. How the presentation of odds and norms of a society in fiction can shadow down the actual major realities of that region. This paper interrogates that to what extent the novel Heat and Dust shows the ethnocentric attitude in the writing of expatriate writer. The differences are not the surety of the superiority. Ruth Prawer took the flight as a novelist after coming to India. This work aims to highlight the fact that the expatriate writers has been impairing the cultural norms and tradition of others that nurtures the detestation and execration.