Volume IV Special Issue VII September 2024

Name of Author : Ayesha Bente Rashed Tithi

Title of the paper : Diasporic Consciousness and Identity Formation in Humayun Ahmeds Hotel Graver Inn

Abstract: One of the most popular writers from Bangladesh, Humayun Ahmed 1948-2012, in his volume of short stories titled Hotel Graver Inn, deals with innumerable issues confronted by the immigrants in culturally diverse circumstances. Since the colonial period, people from the subcontinent have been migrating to the West for job and higher studies, and their permanent or long-time stay there instill in them the diasporic consciousness of home and nostalgia. Such a consciousness often constitutes the core of the experiences of the writers living away from their homeland. People who live beyond the border of their homeland can neither hold onto their roots nor fully embrace their status as immigrants. By grappling with their crisis of identity, they embark on a journey of self-knowledge. This paper focuses on how Ahmed, in his autobiographical chronicle, Hotel Graver Inn, tends to forge an identity through the challenges he faces in an unfamiliar place with different cultural codes and backgrounds.

Keywords : Diaspora, Identity, Nostalgia, Nationalism, Humayun Ahmed.

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Page Number : 63-67