scholarly journals Diasporic Elements in Amit Chaudhuri’s Odysseus Abroad

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (10) ◽  
pp. 224-228
Keyword(s):  
Academic Discipline ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Indian Diaspora ◽  
Diaspora Literature ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
Female Authors ◽  
Indian Origin ◽  
The Galaxy ◽  
Literary Figure ◽  
Foreign Land

The present paper has been specifically designed to investigate diasporic elements in the selected novel of Amit Chaudhuri’s Odysseus Abroad. Indian diaspora literature has emerged as an academic discipline in the age of multiculturalism and transnationalism. It has been flourished by Indian origin authors who have migrated in different nations for different reasons. The galaxy of Indian Diaspora literature is enriched by notable male-female authors who have projected the trauma and complexities of abroad life in their fictional works. Amit Chaudhuri is a prestigious literary figure in the modern indian diasporic writing. The novel portrays a saga and suffering of young indian Bengali boy Ananda who migrate to the Oxford University, England to peruse his degree in literature. Ananda face many challenges in newly adopted western culture. Throughout his journey in foreign land, Ananda exhibit different tropical issues like identity crisis, homesickness, displacement, exile and alienation. Odysseus Abroad is a conspicuous diasporic text which represents a painful journey of a young indian student in abroad. The selected novel will be scrutinized from the angle of diaspora literary study

scholarly journals DIASPORA IDENTITY: CASE STUDY OF NAIPAUL’S FICTION IN A FREE STATE

2021 ◽  
pp. 256-258
Author(s):  
Naina B. Choudhari ◽  
Dr. Jyoti L. Dharmadhikari
Keyword(s):  
World Wide ◽  
Total Population ◽  
Nobel Laureate ◽  
Global Level ◽  
Indian Diaspora ◽  
Strong Bond ◽  
Diaspora Literature ◽  
Indian Origin ◽  
The World

The literature produced at global level by dispersed community that has common ancestral homeland is known as the literature of Indian diaspora. Indian communities are spread all over the major countries of the world. The total population of Indian diaspora in the world is near about twenty million. People from India settle abroad and maintain a strong bond with motherland. The diaspora literature have certain important features, that separate their writing from the mainstream of contemporary writers. The Indian writer have brought diaspora literature at world wide recognition. Nobel laureate V.S. Naipaul was famous writer of Indian origin had he has great contribution in diaspora literature. KEYWORDS: Diaspora, Homeland, Dispersed, Indentured, Expatriate, Exile, Migration.

scholarly journals Diaspora and Culture: A Study of Indian Immigration and Integumentary Anxiety in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2S12) ◽  
pp. 87-91
Keyword(s):  
Second Generation ◽  
Indian Subcontinent ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Indian Diaspora ◽  
The People ◽  
Jhumpa Lahiri ◽  
Foreign Land ◽  
Sense Of Identity ◽  
First And Second Generation ◽  
Indian Immigration

This research aims at capturing the sense of identity, loneliness and untold anxiety among the immigrants from the writing of one of the prominent authors writing in English from Indian subcontinent. The Namesake, a well-knit novel by the author Jhumpa Lahiri. The novel “The Namesake” depicts it the best kind of reference to classify Diaspora as the word ‘Diaspora’ as well as its prime role in this present era, the first and second generation who are struggling for identity, loneliness and the most prominent one is integumentry anxiety among them. It is that untold anxiety which the people can’t disclose to anyone. It remains in the very heart of them untold and unexpressed. In fact Jhumpa Lahiri the novelist is child of Indian immigrates and she is also migrated from her birthplace England to America. The effect of both made her Diaspora writer and a migrant one. She mirrored the life of the Indian Diaspora, who are struggling for identity and the integumentary anxiety. They construct unhomely home in the foreign land.

Dynamics Of Indian Diaspora Literature: A Panoramic View

Think India ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 507-511
Author(s):  
S.SOPHIA CHRISTINA
Keyword(s):  
Broad Context ◽  
Indigenous Culture ◽  
Indian Diaspora ◽  
Panoramic View ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Diaspora Literature ◽  
Diasporic Literature ◽  
Multiple Characteristics ◽  
Indian Contribution

Diaspora Theory has affected the literature of every language of the globe with its multiple characteristics. This literature is commonly referred to as Diasporic or Expatriate Literature. Diasporic Literature is a very broad idea and a paragliding term that involves all those literary works published by writers outside their home nation, but these works are linked to indigenous culture and background. All those authors can be considered as diasporic authors in this broad context, who write outside their nation but through their work stayed linked to their homeland. Diasporic literature has its origins in the sense of loss and alienation resulting from migration and expatriation. Diasporic literature generally deals with alienation, displacement, existential rootlessness, nostalgia, identity quest. Migrants suffer from the pain of being away from their homes, their motherland memories, the anguish of leaving behind everything familiar agonizes migrants ' minds. The diasporic Indians, too, are not breaking their ancestral land connection. There is a search for continuity and an astral impulse, an attempt to search for their origins. Settlement in alien territory leads to dislocation for them. Dislocation can be seen as a rupture with the ancient identity. By debating characteristics of expatriate or diasporic literature, the article tried to examine the reflection of Diaspora Theory and its multiple aspects in literature. The Indian contribution to diasporic literature was also evaluated in English.

Issues of Identity in the Indian Diaspora: A Transnational Perspective

2006 ◽  
Vol 5 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 81-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ajaya Kumar Sahoo
Keyword(s):  
Indian Diaspora ◽  
Global Organizations ◽  
The People ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Indian Origin ◽  
Global Organization ◽  
The World ◽  
Recent Advancement ◽  
Professional Fields ◽  
Diasporic Communities

AbstractIndia is unique for the magnitude of her diversities in terms of languages and regions, religions and sects, castes and sub-castes, rural and urban, food and style of dress, which are also reflected by her diasporic communities. There are diasporic communities formed on the basis of linguistic or regional identities such as Punjabis, Gujaratis, Sindhis, Tamils, Malayalees and Telugus. Global organizations such as Global Organization of People of Indian Origin (GOPIO), World Telugu Federation (WTF), and World Punjabi Organization (WPO), have recently emerged to preserve and promote the identities and cultures of Indians, uniting transnationally India and the global Indian diaspora. The past decade has witnessed a phenomenal dynamism among the diasporic communities, made possible by the recent advancement in technologies of travel, transport, and communications. Not only did these developments bring the diasporic communities and their motherland closer but they also facilitated in bringing together the members of their community dispersed around the world. The present article examines this emerging trend with the illustration of one of the important regional Indian diasporic communities, the Gujarati Diaspora. Gujaratis, the people from the central western parts of India, are one of the early Indian communities who have ventured out to different parts of the world for multiple reasons. Today, as one of the prominent Indian diasporic communities in the world, Gujaratis are successful not only in business, which is their first love, but also in professional fields such as technology, science, medicine, and business management.

scholarly journals METHODS AND TECHNIQUES OF MYTHOLOGIZATION IN S. RUSHDIE’S NOVEL ‘THE GROUND BENEATH HER FEET’

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-82
Author(s):  
Ekaterina V. Vasiljeva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Cultural Dimension ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Greek Mythology ◽  
Orpheus And Eurydice ◽  
European Culture ◽  
Indian Origin ◽  
Methods And Techniques ◽  
Artistic Interpretation ◽  
Iconic Images

The study is devoted to the analysis of methods and techniques of mythologization in the novel The Ground Beneath Her Feet written by the British author of Indian origin S. Rushdie. The paper explores the narrative organization of the novel, in which images and motifs of ancient mythology are used as a special code for artistic interpretation of European culture of the second half of the 20th century. The article examines the artistic reality of the novel, which combines the modern history of rock culture and classical mythology of Ancient Greece. S. Rushdie addresses problems related to the nature of creativity using as the main plot-forming motifs such mythologemes as the love story of Orpheus and Eurydice, the myth of alldevouring Tartarus, twin myths. The study shows that a typical technique for creating expressive threedimensional multivocal images in Rushdie's novel is a combination of real facts from the world of rock culture and mythological allusions, intertwining, overlapping and collision of various motifs and plots of Greek mythology, which, taken all together, generates the original artistic reality. The article analyzes how the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice acquires a cultural dimension in the novel and what techniques are used by the author to activate the extensive cultural memory of the Orphic myth. The concentration and interpretation of iconic images and motifs of ancient mythology are used in the novel for artistic analysis of the state of culture in the second half of the 20th century and of its attempts to counter the catastrophic tendencies of destruction and death of the modern civilization.

scholarly journals Humanism in Red: A New Mainstream Narrative in the Pop Songs in 1980s' China

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lijuan Qian
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Popular Music ◽  
Chinese Literature ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The West ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
Film Version ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Recurrent Theme ◽  
Recent Interpretation

This is a preprint of an article accepted for publication in Oxford Handbook of the Music of China (Oxford University Press ) The articulation of humanism is a recurrent theme in various Chinese literature and arts over the history. One of such well-known cases is the classic novel Journey to the West (Xi you ji) dates from the 16 th Century which stresses the issues of freedom, fighting with the authorities, the loss of belief, and the importance of self-direction. Various adapted versions from this novel popular over since then which hinted strong desire to humanism expression under China’s tight central governance. The recent interpretation of nationwide impacted products is an online novel The Wu Kong’s Biography (Wukong zhuan, written by Zeng Yu, pseudonym Jin Hezai, 2000) which adding the ambitions to challenge the authorities, an imaginary compensation of the young people in China (Liao, 2017). The great popularity of the novel leads to the release of its film version Wu Kong in 2017. Even the theme song of this movie “Equaling Heaven” (music and sung by Hua Chenyu, lyrics by Jin Hezai) brings a real hit in Chinese popular music scene. It was performed by Tibetan singer Zahi Bingzuo, the 2017 winner of The Voice of China in his final song-battle in that show (Qian, 2017: 57-8) and then Hua Chenyu in the TV talent show Singer (Geshou) in 2018. The humanism articulation of the song, same as in the novels and movie, shown well in the song: When I were young and wild, were worthy of it, who would give me a belief? …I could still smile before dawn… ignore the fate decided by the god and I would say the fate follows my heart. 1 Humanist articulations are part of a trend in Chinese pop song that dates back to the 1980s, when that genre first reappeared as an indigenous entertainment genre within China itself. As a transitional phrase during which multiple pre-existing and newly emerging social

scholarly journals A CRITICAL STUDY OF INDIAN DIASPORA THROUGH THE NAMESAKE BY JHUMPA LAHRI

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Keyword(s):  
Special Reference ◽  
Belief System ◽  
Identity Crisis ◽  
Critical Study ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Indian Diaspora ◽  
Jhumpa Lahiri ◽  
Education Culture

In this paper researcher does a critical study of the very famous novel Namesake written by Jhumpa Lahiri. In this novel author has endeavoured to describe the mentality of Indians who are in abroad. How they are confronted with the daily issues related to many things like religion, education, culture, belief system, identity crisis and so on. Researcher here has done a critical study of both the movie and the novel and reach the conclusion with the special reference to Indian Diaspora.

scholarly journals Ecocriticism as Subversive Aesthetics

2019 ◽  
pp. 17
Author(s):  
Jelka Kernev Štrajn
Keyword(s):  
Media Studies ◽  
Animal Studies ◽  
Academic Discipline ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Minority Literature ◽  
Contemporary Theory ◽  
Female Authors ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Literary Art ◽  
Level Of Consciousness

Art is subversive when it crosses the boundary of the generally acceptable, though over time such art can and does become mainstream. A much more complicated question is what is subversive in aesthetics? Ecocriticism has already become, along with ecofeminism and animal studies, an academic discipline. It can be defined as subversive if it is understood in terms of an attitude, which is not anthropocentric. And here is the catch: how can the human also encompass the alien? The question that emerges here is all but rhetorical: how can we decentre and amplify our human consciousness and perspective to include zoocentric, biocentric or geocentric positions? At this point the contemporary theory creates contrasting opinions, which cross the boundaries of aesthetics, poetics and ecocriticism since they reach out to the fields of metaphysics and antimetaphysics. Within the phenomenon of perception the other always appears, as Deleuze said in his Logic of Sense, as “a priori Other”. We have to deal, henceforth, with a kind of pre-reflexive level of consciousness and amplified sensory perception, which, as we know, is the basic condition of artistic creation. Thus, this paper – because it seeks to penetrate into the node of these questions – takes literary art as its starting point. In the spirit of the above-mentioned observations, I have attempted to investigate in ‘minority literature’ (female authors of contemporary Polish and Slovene literature) how this decentred attitude, which Jure Detela, a Slovene poet, poetically defined, corresponds to our thesis on a particular ecocritical stream, which can be defined as an ecofeminist aesthetics. The ‘minoritarian literature’ here is meant exclusively in the sense that was defined by Deleuze and Guattari’s books Kafka and A Thousand Plateaus. Article received: April 12, 2019; Article accepted: July 6, 2019; Published online: October 15, 2019; Original scholarly paperHow to cite this article: Kernev Štrajn, Jelka. "Ecocriticism as Subversive Aesthetics." AM Journal of Art and Media Studies 20 (2019): 17-25. doi: 10.25038/am.v0i20.321

“Faulkner: Past and Future”

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Penn Warren
Keyword(s):  
William Faulkner ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The South ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
Personal Testimony

This chapter offers a local and personal testimony about the influence of William Faulkner. The author of this chapter remembers the day he, while attending Oxford University, received a copy of Soldiers' Pay. It was also the time when he was making his first serious attempt at fiction, with a setting in the part of the South where he had grown up. He suggests that the first, powerful impact of Faulkner's work was by an immediate intuition, not by the exegesis of critics. The author also looks back to the place and time when Faulkner began to write. The chapter argues that Faulkner is the most profound experimenter in the novel that America has produced, but the experiments were developed out of an anguishing research into the southern past and the continuing implications of that past.

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