{"product_id":"9781482855913","title":"Cultural Allotropy: A Study Through Some Indian English Novels","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis research work spins around the issue of cultural allotropy, which we all have experienced at different levels; however, a conscious realization regarding it might be missing to some extent. Centuries of political intervention and subjugation by foreign countries results in the presence of a mixed culture and this side-by-side flourishing of two cultures seems now an accepted fact, a part of man’s consciousness. But the presence of two contradictory sets of values—one not fully accepted and the other not totally rejected—gives rise to a difficult situation in the face of the conflicting claims of the two. This gives rise to a mixing of cultures, a blend which in other words may be called cultural allotropy—that is, existence of the culture of a particular region in two or more forms, having different and mixed properties at the emotional or intellectual level at a given point of time. Going beyond the political subjugation in the era of globalization, it has now become a matter of economic and cultural subjugation. Undoubtedly, our cultural allotropy is a byproduct of modern economic compulsions also. Through different Indian English novelists, I have tried to intrigue the issues via different portrayals and characters and finally posed a question, “What is it to be an Indian?”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Partridge Publishing India","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47130153943280,"sku":"9781482855913","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781482855913_p0.jpg?v=1763625901","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781482855913","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}