Volume IV Special Issue VII September 2024

Name of Author : Arya M S

Title of the paper : Living in the Liminal: On Re Interpreting Afghan Diasporic Realms

Abstract: Afghanistan has a long history of shifting regional and national powers, warring regimes and displaced populaces. It is also one among the nations with highest refugee situations. The writers like Jamil Jan Kochai, Khaled Hosseini, Emran Feroz, Asef Soltanzadeh, Nadia Hashimi et al. have imparted complex problems affecting their compatriots and their ancestral land through their literary ventures. The diasporic writers address shared realities and social conditions similar to most Afghans and these writers allegorically serve as the reflection of the societal realities and conditions of the entire Afghan experience. This study broadens the existing focus on migrants by adopting global and comparative perspectives in a migrant groups literary and cultural history. Migration studies generally disregard the individual experiences focussing on the general aspects of the mobilizing folk. To dissipate this usual style, this study works on the close analysis of some of the literary ventures of the diasporic writers to infer the interplay between liminality and identity formation and to develop a comprehensive framework for examining their relationship with each other in creating transnational selves.

Keywords : Cultural Diversity – Liminality – Psychological Trauma – Re- Aggregation – Transnational Self.

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Page Number : 43-46