Paper Details

Name: Rupinder Kaur Chahil
Country: India

Year: 2014
Volume: Volume-1, Issue-2 (July-December)
Page Number: 57-63

While Indian writers have been making a significant contribution to the world literature since Independence, the past few years saw a massive flourishing of Indian fiction in the global market. Though the writers vary in style yet there is a common thread binding them together- The sense of exile and alienation. The recent literature of emigration and exile is forged by perspectives that emerge from at least two cultures, identities and in some cases, languages. The themes in migrant literature however vary, depending not only on the country of origin but also on the pattern of the migration itself. The attention of the first generation migrant literature is often directed at the act of migration, the passage to another land, the reception in the emigration country, issues of rootlessness and racism, nostalgia and longing. While some of these issues do crop up in second generation migrant writing, it does so often in much more morally complex way. Affiliations are more ambivalent, there is recognition that globaluprootedness is a global phenomenon and the focus is not on the country of origin or arrival, but in the community that does not fully belong to either.