DIASPORIC TRAJECTORIES EXPLORING IMMIGRATION ASPECTS IN SELECT NOVELS OF KIRAN DESAI AND JHUMPA LAHRI

The book is one of the pioneering studies by Indian researchers to offer an overview of the impact of migrations that has shaped the fiction of diasporic women  writers. At the commencement of the new millennium a new period of mass movement of people creating new diasporas, borderlands, transcultural and transnational identities started emerging globally. These displacements and new border crossings have created new dimensions in diasporic discourses. Diaspora mobility engages a significant link, not only of contemporary but an age old historic phase, principally the emergence of postcolonial consequence. The diasporic trajectories on crossing borders encounter varied predicaments. It is observed that all diaspora is not same and similarly the intensity also varies from one to another. The various concepts and perceptions in the theories and the themes, makes it evident that diasporic identity is the marginal identity and hence experiences subservience in the surrounding alien culture of the dominant majority of the host country. The diasporic community is put to an ordeal on crossing borders, which is directly connected to the alien environment. In such environment where the submissive minor community or the third world ideology of the developing south eastern countries like India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, China etc. is surrounded by the dominant, alien major community of the first world, the developed countries or advanced countries like, the USA, England, Australia, Germany etc., influence them with oddity of culture, attitude, living style, language, customs and class differences.