Volume IV Special Issue VI August 2024

Name of Author : Priya Philip

Title of the paper : Diaspora and its Authentic Presence in Chitra Banerjee Divakarunis Literature

Abstract: Diaspora Literature has found its space due to its relatability with multiple generations of readers. The diaspora community experiences heterogenous challenges in their host nation. These challenges can be both intrinsic and extrinsic. They include the identity question, cultural otherness, sense of loss, pain of leaving ones native land and alienation. This paper attempts to highlight the cardinal issues of the diaspora community that find reflection in Chitra Banerjee Divakarunis works. Divarkuni is a candid diasporic writer who has achieved the fine balance of enmeshing her characters and their ideologies with the questions faced and posed by the Diaspora community. Divarkuni deals with the diasporic concepts like isolation, hybridity in identity, dislocation and loss of fraternity with intellectual acumen, sensitivity and the structural balance that she achieves between the past and the present.

Keywords : Diaspora, Isolation, Hybridity, Native Land, Alienation

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Page Number : 141-143