A Perception Of Humour, Irony, Satire And Sarcasm In Amulya Malladi’s The Mango Season

Abstract

The Mango Season is Amulya Malladi’s second novel in which she has employed humour, irony, satire and sarcasm to pinpoint Indian people’s peculiarities and absurdities followed in the name of tradition and culture. The central character, Priya Rao is an Indian, has migrated to USA to pursue her higher studies and has been settled there by getting a good job. Accidentally, she falls in love with an American and they start living together without the knowledge of her parents in India. Malladi tries to say in a humorous and sarcastic manner how the protagonist gets the approval for her marriage. Malladi has sprinkled her novel with humour, irony and satire abundantly to express Priya’s internal conflicts and her changed perception of India.