LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 11 : 11 November 2011
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
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An Exposition of Immigrant Experience in Uma Parameshwaran’s Works

J. Abiraami, M.A., M.Phil.

Saga of Rootlessness and Alienation

Uma Parameshwaran is a first generation immigrant from India to Canada. She started her career as a newspaper reporter in India and later became an author of several works which won awards like 1999 New Muse Award, Canadian Author Association Jubilee Award (2000). She presents her stories in the framework of Diaspora studies which include her western experience with the Indian realities. As an expatriate, she is clear and conscious about her own identity and hence all her works reflect the sense of rootlessness and alienation which are mostly relevant for the Indian Diaspora.

On Defining Diaspora

Before analyzing the experiences and maladies of the Diaspora present in Uma Parameshwaran’s works, an attempt is made here to define Diaspora with the help of the views of a few theorists. I also deal with the various hazards experienced by the diasporic groups in the process of settlement in the new country, their cultural dilemmas and displacements, generational differences, transformation in their identities with the new demands and their mode of existence.

Etymologically ‘diaspora’ is drawn from Greek meaning ‘to disperse’ and signifies a voluntary or forcible movement of the people from the homeland into new region. It has also been used to describe the social, cultural and political formations that result from this displacement.

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J. Abiraami, M.A., M.Phil.
Assistant Professor of English (SG)
Faculty of Engineering
Avinashilingam University for Women
Coimbatore – 641 108
Tamilnadu, India
dhyanabi@yahoo.co.in
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