LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 15:2 February 2015
ISSN 1930-2940

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Cultural Conflict in Divakaruni’s Select Short Stories:
Silver Pavements, Golden Roof

A. R. Bharathi, M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D. Scholar

Chitra Divakaruni
Courtesy: http://www.utdallas.edu/ah/events/detail.html?id=1220345221

Abstract

Expatriate writing is born out of the clash between displacement and relocation, belonging and alienation; it also implies cultural travel from nostalgic reminiscences of home, their original culture to the anchoring in the new world, their adopted culture. It is the diasporic writers, who are concerned by the need to re-establish their roots, straddling between the psychological and physical borders of two cultures. This paper discusses the cultural conflicts portrayed in Divakaruni’s select stories, especially with reference to Silver Pavements and Golden Roof. Disillusion felt by the migrants are detailed. Confronting people from other cultures is a special feature in these stories. Spiritual and psychological conflicts are discussed.

Key words: Divakaruni, short stories, cultural conflicts, spiritual and psychological elements

The Birth of Expatriate Writing and Dimensions of Expatriate Writing

Expatriate writing is born out of the clash between displacement and relocation, belonging and alienation; it also implies cultural travel from nostalgic reminiscences of home, their original culture to the anchoring in the new world, their adopted culture. It is the diasporic writers, who are concerned by the need to re-establish their roots, straddling between the psychological and physical borders of two cultures. Traditions and cultures are exchanged and their effort to locate and assimilate in a new culture suffused in bouts of nostalgia for their native country. It is in this vein that Divakaruni, a second generation expatriate writer, has very powerfully described the diasporic experiences of immigrants.

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Bharathi

A. R. Bharathi, M.A, M.Phil, Ph.D. Full-Time Scholar
Vellalar College for Women
Salem to Erode Road
Thindal
Erode 638012
Tamil Nadu
India
bharathiengdept@gmail.com
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