Salman Rushdie

The Party views individualism as the only force which could overthrow their system of governing, and in making resistance a pointless act, by maintaining ignorance within the masses, they become omnipotent. Through careful early conditioning in schools, clubs, in "lectures, parades, songs, slogans and martial music" all natural human, individual thought and feeling are stamped out of the general populace. They were not allowed to look unique either in clothing (When Parson's young daughter…

Gurinder Chadha’s Bend it Like Beckham “Sometimes we feel we straddle two cultures; at other times, that we fall between two stools.” - Salman Rushdie ‘Diaspora is the term used to describe any population which is considered deterritorialized, dislocated and disintegrated fostering feels of ‘unbelongingness’ and ‘dispossession’. The diasporic experience severs the sense of belonging and…

Dislocation can be of different kinds, physical, psychological, emotional and political. It can be estrangement, self- alienation and social ostracism, an exclusion from familiar environments of family, kinship and culture. It can come through political upheaval, mass migration or natural disaster. It can be individual or collective. But no dislocation is ever absolute, terminal or enduring in itself. In it there is always a kind of holding back, a sort of nostalgia, and the perception of…

CHAPTER -1 INTRODUCTION Diaspora basically refers to the people who move from their original homeland to the foreign land. this movement to the alien land leads to many problems for the diasporic people like they suffer from identity crisis whose outcome is alienation. The Diaspora began with the 6th century BCE conquest of the ancient Kingdom of Judah by Babylon, the destruction of the First Temple (c. 586 BCE), and the expulsion of the…

In reading, towards a feminist narratology author begins by admitting that feminism and narratology would seem to be strange bed-fellows, the one being “impressionistic, evaluative and political” , the other being “scientific, descriptive and non ideological”. Indeed, no contemporary theory has exerted so little influence on feminist theory as formalist-structuralist narratology . Author posits that there are many reasons for this distrust of narratology on the part of feminism.First and…

“Remember, it’s an in-between space. neither here nor there. It is dangerous.” (Badami 110) Diasporas overtly or covertly are always burdened with the pangs of nostalgia and regret that results from a ‘hyphenated identity’. This ambiguous identity fails to clearly demarcate the place in which diasporas can settle themselves and look at the things and relate to them. The term ‘diaspora’ has never been approached with a universal, conventional idea but is always seen with different…

Grey: Fifty Shades of Grey as Told by Christian, commonly referred as simply Grey, has been published recently in a flurry of extravaganza and fanfare all over the Western World. It was released on 15th June, 2015. The date of its release coincides with the date of birth of Christian Grey—the vanguard and protagonist of this novel. It is an erotic romance story by British writer E.L. James—the author of an erstwhile super block buster hit the Fifty Shades of Grey. The novel under review is the…

Chapter one Anita Desai as a novelist Anita Desai is one of the most powerful and distinguished Indian English novelists. She has an extraordinary sharpness and penetration of vision. Her writings have drawn world-wide critical attention. Anita Desai has added a new dimension to the Indian English fiction: the exploration of human psyche. She is endowed with searching psychological insight and often peeps into the inner recesses of the psyche, rather than merely presenting the outer spectacle…

In a fairly short duration Bharati Mukherjee has received a respectable attention from the critics around the world. She is described as a ‘voice’ of expatriate- immigrant sensibility. She has stayed in different places, and lived through various cultures. In her journey as a writer her creative sensibility has undergone many changes, a continuous quest from ‘expatriation to immigration’. As a writer her concern can be seen in the lives of South- Asian immigrants in the USA and Canada and the…