Diasporic Consciousness in Manju Kapurs The Immigrant

Name of Author : V Krishnaveni, Dr. S Mohamed Haneef

Abstract: The term Diaspora is used to study the social world resulting from displacement, flight, exile and forced migration. There is a significant place for Diasporic Indian English fiction in portraying Indian diaspora in a wide span. It focuses on themes such as discrimination, cultural shock, problems in adjustment and assimilation, orientalism, identity crisis, alienation and displacement, dilemma, depression, hybridity and generational gap. Migration and Immigration has become a famous phenomenon nowadays among the Indians as well. Indian Diasporic writers live on the margins of two countries and create cultural theories. Some of the contemporary Diasporic writers are Manju Kapur, Shobha De, Meena Alexander, Arundhati Roy and Anita Nair. These writers discover many hues and many shades of Diasporic writings and then trace the gradual growth and maturity of creative and critical expressions related to Diasporic fiction. Manju Kapurs fourth novel The Immigrant (2008) is a story of two immigrants, namely Nina and Ananda. The novel is set in Canada and the novelist discusses the Indian diaspora in Canada.

Keywords : Diaspora, Immigrant, Displacement, Alienation

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