PARADIGM OF EMOTIONAL AND MENTAL AGONY OF DIASPORA

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  • Ms. Anju Sehrawat (Assistant Professor), Dept. of English D. A. V.Centenary College, Faridabad (Haryana), India

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Abstract

Diaspora is the migration of people from theirhomeland. It can be forced or voluntary. Diaspora plays an important part in our human civilization. TheseDiaspora people have developed their own communities and have a different world of their own. Study of diaspora give us a chance to study life of them from their perspective as how they all share a common bond between them. Indian diaspora has also played a considerable role in world literature.These diasporic writers of India lives in other countries.Diasporic writers of India have helped in giving expression to our indian culture and Bharti Mukherjee is one of them.Her place is among the great diasporic writers like Salman Rushdie,VikramSeth,JhumpaLahirietc.Literature is also a great medium of expression of female voice and it gives voice to their sufferings, predicaments.Bharti Mukherjee in her novel Jasmine uses the voice of her protagonist to express the pitiable plight of a female.In this novel jasmine went to America as an illegal immigrant and their she went through many transformations and finally regenerate herself.

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2017-07-31

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Vol. 6 No. 8 (2017): July 2017

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