Diasporic Consciousness and Cultural Adaptability as a Destructive Force in America with Reference to the Works of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

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Dr. Akkara Sherrine PhD, H. Mohammed Azarudeen

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The motif of Indian diasporic writing is the search for self-recognition and self-identity. Through various techniques, the chief and most popular of which is the probe into the emotional and psychic consequences of immigrant experience. A microscopic analysis of diasporic literature brings to limelight the invisible but the inseparable ‘commonalities’ that unite such literature. In the study of the identity of diaspora, the concept of ‘cultural capital’ and ‘sites of memory become inevitable and indispensable as they act as the bridge between the culture and memories of the past with the present precarious position of the immigrants. Tropes of food, customs and rituals associated with religion, caste frequently recur and force the writers into a nostalgic mode which makes them have a sigh of relief and refuge.

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