Surviving the Diasporic Home Renegotiating Homeland and Hostland in 20th-Century Indo-American Literature

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Shreya Bera

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The paper aims to explore the transcultural aesthetics of Indian diaspora and its gradual transformation through 20th-century Indo-American literature while observing reconfiguration of the domestic boundaries in North America. Bharati Mukherjee, Jhumpa Lahiri and Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni explore the three-dimensional socio-political construction of home and re-read the themes of migration and resettlement. The intention is to showcase the relationship and co-existence between homeland and the hostland through a comparative study of selected works by these authors by focusing on the angle of ‘diasporic home’ through unfamiliarity, hostility, adaptation.

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Bera, Shreya. 2019. “Surviving the Diasporic Home: Renegotiating Homeland and Hostland in 20th-Century Indo-American Literature”. AMERICANA E-Journal of American Studies in Hungary 15 (1). https://iskolakultura.hu/index.php/americanaejournal/article/view/45437.
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Shreya Bera

Shreya Bera is currently a second year PhD-student in the Doctoral School of Literature at the University of Szeged. The research interests include 20th-century American literature, postcolonial literature, diaspora studies, theories of the sublime, trauma theories and narratives. Email: sbera666.sb@gmail.com