LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 18:2 February 2018
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Disrupted Lives and Distorted Roots in Bharati Mukherjee’s Wife

Dr. S. Latha Venkateswari
M.A., M.Phil., M.Ed., PGDTS, Ph.D.


Abstract

Migration has become a common phenomenon in the present era of globalization and technological advancements. Though migration fulfills the primary objective of the immigrants, their life on the adopted land is replete with chaos. Fascinated by the prosperity on the foreign land and to retain their hard-earned position, the immigrants attempt to assimilate with the alien culture that leads them to confront culture shock, develop nostalgia and experience loneliness as well as alienation. Eventually, the immigrants feel that they neither belong to the adopted country nor to their motherland. Indeed, the psychological traumas make the immigrant communities understand how their distorted roots disrupt their otherwise calm life. This paper analyses the diasporic experiences of the North Indian couple Amit and Dimple.

Keywords: Expatriate, Immigrant, Diaspora, Assimilate, Migration, Alienation

Introduction

Of people belonging to different nationalities, Indians secure a noticeable position in migration. This factor has contributed to the growth of the Indian diasporic literature. The term ‘diaspora’ is derived from the Greek word ‘Diasperin’ which is “the combination of ‘Dia’ meaning ‘over’ and ‘Sperin’, ‘to sow’, as in scattering or planting” (Cameron 86). Accordingly, diaspora refers to uprooting the people from their native places and re-rooting them in a new country. In general, the term Diaspora refers to movement or displacement of people to a foreign country.

The diasporic literature acquaints the readers with issues common to the immigrants such as identity crisis, sense of loneliness and alienation, immigrant and expatriate experience, cross-cultural confrontation, cultural transformation, migrants’ attitude of clinging to myths and symbols of their homelands etc.

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Dr. S. Latha Venkateswari
M.A., M.Phil., M.Ed., PGDTS, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of English (SG
) Government College of Technology
Coimbatore- 641013
Tamil Nadu
India
drlathagct@gmail.com

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