Paper Details

Name: Gurpreet Kaur
Country: India

Year: 2016
Volume: Volume-3, Issue-1 (January-June)
Page Number: 35-39

Literature is abundant with various forms of dislocations, such as exile, diaspora and migration in the context of Post-colonialism. Basically, Diaspora is a minority community living in exile. Diasporic literature can be said to be an idea of a homeland, a place from where the displacement occurs and narratives of harsh journeys are undertaken on account of economic compulsions. Some scholars conceive of diaspora as an identified group characterized by specific social relationships despite their dispersal. Under the generalized rubric of Diasporas, this paper will engage its readers with some selected writings of Indo- Canadian diasporic writers like, Neil Bissoondath, Rohinton Mistry, Uma Parameswaran, and M. G. Vassanji. The purpose of this paper is to give an account of not only how Diasporas consider themselves but in how their identity is created, defined and recorded. The manifold challenges that the Indian diaspora faces is evident through the enormous amount of literature that comes from them. These writers through their works are presenting their ‘an out of India or away from India experience’