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Cultural Angst: An Outline of Chitra Divakaruni’s The Mistress of Spices
Name of Author :
Dr. Divya. P
Abstract:
The term diaspora, a global occurrence, refers to community of dislocated people who move from their homeland and wander one place to another due to social, political or economic reasons. The word traces its root from Greek scatter or dispersion, and in its cultural sense, it is the cultural movement of people who have lost their homeland and repositioned themselves in another place. The migrants live in-between two cultures- the native culture and the adopted one- in the alien land. The Indian immigrants expand their social relations in a culturally cosmopolitan identity. The immigrant writers or diasporic writers migrate to an alien land to live there happily, but in reality they struggle a lot for their survival. They are struggling to live in-between two cultures which give them the feeling of nostalgia and rootlessness. Thus, the South Asian Diaspora writers draw their attention to the cultural conflicts, assimilation, East-West encounter, displacement, fragmentation and so on. The diasporic writers or immigrant writers stand in between two cultural scenarios in the process of moving from one culture to another and the same dual culture drives a wedge between the nation and the self. The Mistress of Spices is an adaptation which is filmed by Paul Mayeda Berges and released in 2005. It is based on the novel The Mistress of Spices written by Chitra Divakaruni, and film stars Aiswarya Rai.
Keywords :
Cultural Angst, immigrant, conflicts, Diaspora
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