LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 13:7 July 2013
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
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Attempting to Construct ‘Voice’
Diaspora Experiences in Tales from Firozsha Baag

M. Sathya, M.A., M.Phil.
Dr. R. Latha Devi

Focus of This Paper

This paper examines the problem of isolation and involvement while looking at man’s hopelessness, him being unable to find a meaning in life due to his rootless existence. Human feelings, ideas, passions, experiences, joys, sorrows, aspirations and struggles in life form the basis of all arts and particularly, of literary art. All the literatures of the world are the outpourings of the innermost feelings of creative writers. The various commonwealth countries had easily adapted to novel writing with its comparative flexibility and variability. It has become a vehicle for the expression of their native ethos. Every novel might be said to rest upon a certain view of the world and to present a general philosophy of life. The novel is the most influential and the most widely practiced of the prose genres. It first emerged in 18th century England as a product of the middle class. The ‘novel’ as a literary form is one of the most notable gifts of Britishers to India.

The Problem of Individual Identity

The problem of individual identity has a complexity in its different manifestations. Psychologists and philosophers have all discussed the predicament of modern life and man, finding in both traits of deep-rooted anxiety, alienation and absurdity. People’s international connections have rendered them rootless. One of the facets of a rootless existence is self-isolation which in its turn is related to the loss of identity and its quest to get out of the crisis. Isolation from the self is the basic form of human predicament. This is not only a sociological, but also a psychological problem of contemporary man and modern life.

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M. Sathya, M.A., M.Phil.
Assistant Professor of English
S.F.R. College for Women
Sivakasi 626 123
Tamilnadu
India
sathyaprabhakar2@gmail.com

Dr. R. Latha Devi
Head and Asst. Professor
Department of English
University College of Engineering
Anna University, Nagercoil Campus
Nagercoil 629004
Tamilnadu
India
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