LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 13 : 2 February 2013
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
         B. A. Sharada, Ph.D.
         A. R. Fatihi, Ph.D.
         Lakhan Gusain, Ph.D.
         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         S. M. Ravichandran, Ph.D.
         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
Assistant Managing Editor: Swarna Thirumalai, M.A.

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Deconstructing the Nation – Transnationalism in
Ondaatje’s The English Patient

V. Vijayalayan and Dr. Claramma Jose

Transnationalism and Literature

Transnationalism today is a pervasive global phenomenon. Demographic ties spanning nation-states have become a compulsive feature of the world in the present context. Transnational linkages have emerged as the essential lifeline that animate and sustain the current global order. This emergence to prominence of trans-nationalism has resulted in diverse repercussions. But perhaps its most telling impact is the radical refashioning of the concept of nation. Traditionally conceived as holistic entities, nations are being increasingly viewed as volatile structures. There is a growing consensus against exclusivist notions of the nation-state model. Ideas of jurisdiction and sovereignty are being widely redefined in fundamentally flexible and malleable terms. The conventional emphasis on reinforcing nationalist affiliations is being supplanted by an overwhelming inclination to affirm global or transnational allegiances. Literature, among many disciplines, has come to be significantly influenced by this paradigm shift (Vertovec 1-5).

Transnationalism and its subset anti-nationalism have become major concern of contemporary world literature. The emergence to prominence of diaspora literature as a specialized and distinct field of study in recent times bears ample testimony to the point. On account of being authored by subjects with torn or divided loyalties, diaspora texts exemplify a strong case for upholding trans-nationalist and antinationalist implications.

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V. Vijayalayan, M.A., M.Phil., B.Ed.
Assistant Professor of English
RKM Vivekananda College
Chennai- 600004
Tamilnadu
India
v.vijayalayan@gmail.com

Dr. Claramma Jose
Associate Professpr of English
Loyola College
Chennai- 600034
Tamilnadu
India
clarammajose61@yahoo.in
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