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The complex negotiation with identity is the primary concern of diasporas around the globe. Vijay... more The complex negotiation with identity is the primary concern of diasporas around the globe. Vijay Mishra in the introduction to his book The Literature of the Indian Diaspora: Theorizing the Diasporic Imaginary claims that all diasporic people are in their own way unhappy. They are in a constant search for their identity as the sense of up-rootedness leaves them divided within. The term Diaspora primarily refers to the exodus of Jews once from Israel in the sixth-seventh century B.C and subsequently from Jerusalem in the second century A.D. In contemporary scenario it is used as an umbrella term to refer to all the displaced people who have emigrated from their homeland. The angst of dislocation, whether willful or imposed, finds its way in the creative expression of writers who belong to the same community of expatriates and share similar discomfort regarding their “non-hyphenated identities” (Mishra, Introduction: the diasporic imaginary 1).
The complex negotiation with identity is the primary concern of diasporas around the globe. Vijay... more The complex negotiation with identity is the primary concern of diasporas around the globe. Vijay Mishra in the introduction to his book The Literature of the Indian Diaspora: Theorizing the Diasporic Imaginary claims that all diasporic people are in their own way unhappy. They are in a constant search for their identity as the sense of up-rootedness leaves them divided within. The term Diaspora primarily refers to the exodus of Jews once from Israel in the sixth-seventh century B.C and subsequently from Jerusalem in the second century A.D. In contemporary scenario it is used as an umbrella term to refer to all the displaced people who have emigrated from their homeland. The angst of dislocation, whether willful or imposed, finds its way in the creative expression of writers who belong to the same community of expatriates and share similar discomfort regarding their “non-hyphenated identities” (Mishra, Introduction: the diasporic imaginary 1).