Refugee Crisis: A Scrutiny on the Displaced Voices of Nuruddin Farah

Abstract

Refugees are mere fugitives who trusted in the mirage of obtaining a promising future in an unknown land. The inner urge for a better life is the common intention of every refugee who steps out from the homeland with courage and strong determination. The refugee crisis is turning out to be one of the global issues that has to be sorted out immediately. A person who is coerced to leave his native soil is a worrisome thing to witness, hence literature evolved to capture the miseries of the displaced civilians. A literary text that concentrates on the refugee’s trajectory of life is regarded as refugee literature. This genre is an extended form of diasporic novels that induces migration of an individual’s life from dawn to dusk. Being an expatriate novelist for years, Nuruddin Farah imparts his practical wisdom on the miseries of refugees in his recent works. His empirical approach in the narration aids the reader in correlating with the psyche of a refugee who was deeply vulnerable during the phase of forced displacement. This paper attempts to unveil Farah’s novel North of Dawn which is enclosed with the tapestry of refugee issues, It also documents the chaotic life of refugees and displays the scrutiny of the displaced voice with an outstanding narrative from the selected text.