Paper Details

Name: Suhanvi Sharma
Country: India

Year: 2023
Volume: Volume-10, Issue-2 (July-December)
Page Number: 1-4

ABSTRACT
Postcolonial literature in the twenty-first century is booming with a range of issues as there is a rise in cross-cultural transactions and transnational engagements paving the way for a wide spectrum of understanding in emerging literature across the world. Similarly, South-Asian literature and especially diasporic narratives of Sri Lanka has witnessed unprecedented recognition for its unparalleled exploration of issues of its country and its people. V.V. Ganeshananthan is a notable writer settled in the U.S. having Sri Lankan roots her budding novel Love Marriage (2008) deals with some of the complex issues of the postcolonial world with profound insights and observations; identity, migration, discovery of self, and community, territory, nation, politics of space and resistance. The present study looks at how the novel deftly constructs a narrative of the Tamil diaspora unveiling themselves fraught with displacement, oppression, and transition of identities manifesting a resistance against historical odds.

KEYWORDS: Identity, Self, Memory, Space, Family, Hybridity, Marriage and
Displacement.