English literature is far away from its earlier image of being ‘derivative’ and ‘imitative’. With its own ‘independent’ and ‘distinct’ identity it poses certain ambiguities. Especially, the migrant writers claiming, to be Indians or included in the Indian English literature, have settled somewhere else, away from their homeland or prefer to be divorced from their ancestral being, and yet their works have deeper links with their roots. Indian writers grouped under ‘expatriate’, and ‘diasporic’ writers
Method of Research The feminist, comparative and psychological approaches will be used throughout the study to analyze the literary works by Nwapa and Adichie. The novels will be analyzed using feminist and gender theories to understand the women portrayed in Nwapa and Adichie’s novels and the psychological theories will also be used to understand theories of identity and voicing. The comparative approach will be used to locate the similarities and differences between the two writers and their writings
Studies on Indian diaspora have largely focused on one or the other of the aforementioned phases. This is easy to understand considering the magnitude of the populations involved, and the variegated nature of their economic status and political predicament in different diasporic communities have been topical or their members themselves have begun manifesting an acute sense of “community self-awareness”. Not less important, in many of these cases, archival records and other secondary data can be found
MEMORY OF HOMELAND AND TRANSCULTURAL CONSTRUCTION OF IDENTITY IN CHRIS CLEAVE’S LITTLE BEE The tragic death of the stowing away refugees minimizes them to usual announcements and little is known about the survivor refugees whose mere possessions are their memories. Little Bee, the protagonist of Chris Cleave in Little Bee, is one of these survivors trying to conceptualize her position between her past in Nigeria and her present in England. As a little kid she is obliged to leave her hometown seized
extent of developing one story “Jasmine” into a full - fledged novel. The collection of short stories helps the readers to gather valuable inputs about the struggle for survival and the ultimate triumph of early immigrants. I. Introduction Diasporic literature got a shot in the arm with the arrival of Bharati Mukherje in the 70s. Bharati Mukherjee is at her best in both her novels and short stories. The collection of short stories “The middle man and other stories” got the National Book Critics
Lahiri writing thus appears to be human relationship in all different types are portrayed. As a Saloni Prasad says, Lahiri stories are all about the inner psyche of the characters, “The relationship between parents and child, siblings, lover, husband and wife and even simply between the residents of the same building” (RRTD P.132) changed the book Lahiri is an Indian by origin, British by education and American by citizenship. In her cross-cultural experience she unable to forget her cultural