Literature of Diaspora Cultural Dislocation

Literature of Diaspora: Cultural Dislocation is an attempt to analyze the concept of Diaspora and explore some of the major issues pertaining to the diasporic writings in view of globalization multiculturalism. Globalization has produced new patterns of migration and provoked divergent responses worldwide. The interaction between ‘host’ and ‘immigrant’ cultures asks new questions of identity, politics and the issues involved. It also asks new questions of how culture and literature interact, more particularly, how the overlapping of old and new patterns of voluntary and forced migration is remapping cultural identity, politics,  literariness and literary texts. The immigrant writers create and inscribe ‘alternative worlds’ by exchanging one tradition for another, one culture for another, and one home for another. They are caught in a dilemma of nothingness or not belonging. Their identity becomes a hyphenated identity. This very tension becomes the very source of creativity as can be seen in the works of Naipaul, Rushdie, Jhumpa Lahiri, Kiran desai, Chitra Banerjee Rohinton Mistry, Mochael Ondaatje, Parthasarathy, Taslima Nasreen, Hanif Qreshi, Margaret Atwood, Toni Morrison, LeRoi Jones and other. Memory becomes the most significant factor which sets the diasporic writer’s discourse in the ‘centre’. The essays in the anthology would sharpen our focus and create better awareness about the diasporic experience and narratives.