Exploration of Diaspora and Cultural Identity in Literary Works
Prof. Shanta Patil Kulkarni, through her image and description, initiates a discussion on diaspora defined as the dispersion of people from their homeland to foreign lands involuntarily. The portrayal of diaspora individuals engaging in a blend of old and new traditions, altering identities, and highlighting the concept of a homeland is explored. The representation of diaspora in literature by notable authors such as V.S. Naipaul, Salman Rushdie, and others is touched upon, illustrating narratives of migration, adaptation, and the search for a sense of belonging.
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Prof. Shanta Patil Kulkarni Associate Professor of English Smt. K.S. Jigalur Arts & Dr(Smt) S.M. Sheshgiri Commerce College for Women, Dharwad.
Coined from Greek Language-dia speiro- to sow over Means Dispersed or scattered
Diaspora describes people who have left their home country, usually involuntarily to foreign countries around the world. For example: The removal of Jewish people from Judea the removal of African s through slavery Through Migration, Exile and Refugees of Syria
Diaspora people find themselves restricting, expanding, mixing and matching their new and old homes their new and old lives and identities. It is a study of what is taken with one of what is left behind and of what is transformed.
It is based on the idea of a homeland. It provides narratives of harsh journeys undertaken for various reasons. It provides accounts of another Sense of place away from homeland. One could read how homeland-made protagonists behave in a far of land either adopting or rejecting new cultural codes of their new sense of place.
V.S. Naipaul Salman Rushdie Bharathi Mukerjee Jumpa Lahiri Amitav Ghosh Rohinton Mistry Kiran Desai Kamala Markandeya Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Seventh Novel , authors best, Published in 1972 It s a tragedy of alienation Story of an elderly Brahmin Srinivas , native of India Lived nearly 30yrs in London with his wife and two children. At 70 years old he was marked as a Pariah , a Convict on Parole Always used to call London as My country , I feel at home in it, more than I would in my own but was not accepted fully. Apt title- Nowhere Man
The first novel of Jhumpa Lahiri, an American author, Bengali by birth, published in 2003 Theme of Importance of Names Depicts the struggles of Ashoke and Ashima Ganguli, first generation immigrants from the East-Indian state of West Bengal to the united States, and their American-born children Gogol and Sonia.
An Indian American-Canadian writer One of the best novels written around 1980 Two themes- jasmine s love story and about life struggle Jyoti born in Hasnapur, India, becomes jasmine moves to USA to fulfill her husbands dream, makes a long journey out of India, suffering trials and tribulations.
Diaspora is a scattering of the seed in the wind, the fruits of which are a new creation and a fight to survive. Diaspora is a journey towards self- realization, Self-recognition, Self-knowledge and Self-definition.
