Question

discuss the role of literature in highlighting the diaspora experience by indians abroad in about 1000 words​

Answer 1

The role of literature in highlighting the diaspora experience by Indians abroad is as follows:

• Diasporic literature deals with nostalgia, rootlessness, identity quest, alienation etc.

• Diasporic literature shows the immigrant's experience from the distant country. It also shows the situations which come out from the settlement of the immigrant.

• Nostalgia has a huge role. It is combined with fear as the immigrant has to leave his/her own country to start living in a strange habitat.

• Diasporic literature also shows the stages of adjustment, one has to go through in the new and unknown environment.

Answer 2

The role of Indians in highlighting the literature of diaspora

Step by step explanation

Principle of the Diaspora, with its different features, has inspired the literature of every language across the world. The literary of the book   is widely known as  Diasporic Literature. It will be appropriate to analyze the features and aspects of such literature, where Indian Writing in English has not only made a significant contribution, but has also received widespread recognition and admiration in recent times.

These books  includes all those literary works written by protagonists outside their native nation, but these books are related to local culture and traditions. In this broad context, all these authors can be recognized as diasporic writers who, through they work outside of their motherland but still ,  have stayed attached to their homeland migration and expatriation from one place to the other.

• Idea behind diasporic writing

Diasporic literature has its source in the sense of diasporic portrait of the numerous issues raised by the experience of migration and diaspora, such as  alienation, rootlessness, separation, racial discrimination, marginalization, identity crisis, cultural conflict and many others, is broadly portrayed in contemporary Indian Writing in English literature .

The phrase ' diaspora ' has been used predominantly in connection with the dispersion and banishment of Jews from their motherland and their nostalgia for their lost territories and the cultural marginalization they have experienced in new location cultures or the nation where they went to live.  

The  migration in India had rapidly  increased by mid  17th century. But many  people were uprooted in the 18th and 19th centuries to represent the British Empire in different parts of the world. The thoughts and desires of these displaced people for their homelands have given them political independence. In the early part of the 20th century, many Hindus, Muslims and primarily Punjabi Sikhs went to Canada to work as lumberjacks in sawmills. They worked very hard but they were paid very low wages for their work which was not sufficient for their needs

Then they started a  protest against such atrocities by the Indian diaspora in  Canada united them in ‘Gadar Party’ which becomes a leading force in the struggle   for democracy and  liberty going on in India. Sadhu Singh Dhami has portrayed this phase in his novel  that is Maluka  in [1997] .

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