Cinematographic Comparison of the Selected Diasporic Novels of Indian English Literature
Keywords:
Diaspora, Immigrant Experience, East-West Encounters, Hybridity, Nostalgia and Memory, Generation Gap, TransnationalismAbstract
Indian Fiction in English (and indeed Indian Hinglish cinema) in the last decade or so has increasingly highlighted the experience of Indian immigrants in other countries, primarily the US and UK. These constitute the new diaspora, unlike the earlier generation of immigrants who went as indentured labour to the colonies. Scattered examples of East-West encounters (rather than immigrant experience) have occurred in Indian Fiction in English earlier. These novels do not really touch upon the pains of displacement and dislocation. It is in the 1990s that the immigrant/ diasporic novel has burgeoned as a visible sub-category in the body of Indian Fiction in English (IFE).
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