Paper Details

Name: Aparna Nandha, Milind Brahme
Country: India

Year: 2016
Volume: Volume-3, Issue-1 (January-June)
Page Number: 55-64

Religion and Ethics are topics that are eluded in the context of South Asian migration. While on the surface they seem unimportant, these are discourses that dictate our sense of what is right and wrong. This paper will attempt to probe into the religious and ethical consciousness of two Sri Lankan-Canadian mainstream writers—Michael Ondaatje and Shyam Selvadurai—by deconstructing their fictional works in the post-civil war context. Both the novels under consideration—Anil’s Ghost and the Hungry Ghosts, tell tales about Sri Lankan diaspora. This paper will investigate the assimilation of Sri Lankan migrants into a foreign country with special reference to their religious and ethical standpoints. This investigation tries to iterate the role of religion in constructing the identity of a person and might open up avenues for further research in this line
Key words: religion; ethics; assimilation; migration; Ondaatje; Selvadurai