Volume IV Special Issue VI August 2024

Name of Author : Dr. Bhatima Barman

Title of the paper : Home and Nostalgia in a comparative reading of Meera Syals Anita and Me and Jhumpa Lahiris The Namesake

Abstract: Away from their home, uprooted, dislocated, discarded and persecuted, they try to find ground so that they can stay rooted, firm and steadfast so that they can sprout up, grow and bloom. Though they change the ground yet the relation is never snapped the soil beckons the nation pulls them. However rarefied it is but the bond remains there in some form or the other. In some corner of the heart or mind, the vestiges exist Nair 1. As migrants leave their homelands for various reasons, the sense of rootlessness and identity crisis becomes a part of their lives. Across all nations and nationalities, the urge for home and a sense of lingering nostalgia is what characterizes the experiences of diasporic communites. This paper is an attempt to trace the elements of nostalgia and the yearning for home in Meera Syals Anita and Me and Jhumpa Lahiris The Namesake

Keywords : Home, Nostalgia, Memory, Identity

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Page Number : 12-14