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Silver Pavements Golden Roofs Analysis

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Contemporary world literature remains in a dynamic state of flux due to the rising trends of globalization. At the crest of this wave, writers are reverberating myriads of voices of human experiences .Within the new wave of blurring boundaries, diasporic writings emerge as epiphanies of intertwining experiences of hope, joy, pain, conflict and love of migrants and their connected relations. They echo the disheartened music of life that is created by continuous vacillation between contradictory conceptions of culture, identity and belongingness. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni surfaces as the trumpet of several South Asian women who by the twist of destiny deracinate their souls entrenched in their native land and trail to a foreign terra firma, …show more content…

Jayanti, who was proud to be an upper class Indian, her entire perception of her own race is thrown into question after this incidence. “Now the others take up the word, chanting it in high singsong voices that have not broken yet, nigger, nigger, until I want to scream, or weep. Or laugh, because can’t they see that I’m not black at all but an Indian girl of good …show more content…

But the dream of America to be the gold mine of success and happy living is often distorted as we recall the experiences of migrants stated in diasporic literatures. The disturbance occurs when the pre-concieved notions turn out to be different.As Jayanti in this story moves to Chicago for higher studies, her notions of American life and her aunt’s family life changes perceptibly over

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