Saeed Savaran - Master of English Literature, Ahar Azad University
Ali Arian - Ph.D., English Literature, Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University

This paper examines the concepts of alienation, displacement and dislocation and exile in the selected postcolonial works, Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners and Naipaul’s A House for Mr. Biswas to display how the characters cannot find a home of their own. Selvon and Naipaul are dealing not only with a geographical dislocation but also with a social-cultural sense of displacement. Their exilic states give birth to the sense of displacement and rootlessness. Naipaul and Selvon themselves experienced, and repeatedly described in their fiction, this particular urge. Throughout their life, they attempted to search for their own identity especially in their homeland, for their cultural roots (India). As colonial writers, Naipaul and Selvon with multi-cultural backgrounds present colonial anxieties and colonized’s quest for self-identity. For them, travel is a way to understand oneself, to achieve self-knowledge. For Naipaul and Selvon, who have experienced colonial dislocation, the art of fiction has represented in the other ways where the lost self of man could be retrieved, clarified and restored.

Dislocations; Displacement; Alienation; Homelessness; Exile