POETICS OF EXILE: VOICES FROM THE INDIAN DIASPORA

Samira  Sinha; d Md. Maher  Ali

doi:10.53808/KUS.2010.10.1and2.1019-A

Authors

Samira Sinha Department of English, J.N. College, Ranchi University, Ranchi, Jharkhand, India
d Md. Maher Ali Department of English, Islamic University, Kushtia, Bangladesh

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.53808/KUS.2010.10.1and2.1019-A

Keywords:

Diaspora, marginalised, homeland, relocation, alienation, longing

Abstract

Diasporic literature relates to its homeland through the dialectics of longing and belonging: of the feeling of being uprooted and marginalized. This predicament of all diaspora, who find themselves in a racist, alienating and strange environment, pleads to belong to a more receptive, friendly and equitable land of resettlement. People of Indian Origin, living in over seventy countries, 1 have contributed immensely in making the world as we see it today. They have not only survived, but prospered and constitute “an important force in the world culture”. V.S. Naipaul, Salman Rushdie and Amitav Ghosh, to mention a few, are some major voices of the Indian diaspora.

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