Vol.4, No.2, AUTUMN 2014

 

 

Diaspora in Global Perspective

 

 

1-A Case of Cognitive Closure : Transcendental Naturalism and the Diaspora in Anil’s Ghost

Soham Ganguly

2-Transformation of Diaspora Studies: From Discrimination to Identity Formation

S.Sujaritha

3- The Celebration of Diaspora in Bharti Mulkherjee’s Jasmine

Shraddha

4- Counternarrative as Emergence: V. S. Naipaul’s A House for Mr. Biswas

Rohit Phutela

5-Locating the female subject in diaspora: A reading of Sunetra Gupta’s Memories of Rain and Meena Alexander’s Manhattan Music

Anindita Das

6- The Concept of Home in Diaspora

P. Prayer Elmo Raj

7-Blending Worlds: Mapping Home and Belonging in the Short Fiction of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Basudhara Roy

8-An Appraisal of ‘Home’ as a Psychological space in Interpreter of Maladies

Altaf Ahmad Bhat

Shabir Ahmad Mir

9-Unveiling the Layers of Woman’s Heart -PannaNaik, A Legendary American Gujarati Diaspora Writer

Darsha Jani

10-Postcolonial perspectives on partition: A study of Bapsi Sidhwa’s Ice Candy Man (cracking India)

Arabati Pradeep Kumar

11-PAST, PRESENT & FUTURE Tracing the diaspora through Jhumpa Lahiri’s Ashima and Gauri

Joie Bose

12- Diasporic Location(s) and the Poetics of Self: Reflections on Meena Alexander’s Manhattan Music and Nampally Road

Manjari Shukla

13-In Search of a Room of One’s Own: The Home as a Seat of Longing and Desire in Diaspora.

Baidehi Mukherjee

14-A Search for the Lost Root: Bangladeshi Migration and Communal Disharmony, Diaspora Identity and Elements of Nostalgia in Taslima Nasreen’s Pherā

Saikat Guha

15-From Diaspora to Transnationalism

Abhinaba Chatterjee

16-Diasporic reveleations in Anita Desai’s Journey to Ithaca

Komal Rakwal

Neeru Sharma

17-Twice –Displaced: Naipaul’s Assimilationist Experience

Shilpy Malhotra

18-Music in Toni Morrioson’s selected works

Biman Mondal

19-Jewish Diaspora and Establishment of Israel as a Nation

Aju Mukhopadhyay

20-Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Lowland as a Tragedy of Relation

Raj Kumar Mishra

21-The Parsis of Rohinton Mistry: An Analysis of the Trajectory through which the Parsis Travelled in India

Abhik Banerjee

22-The Location and Struggles of the Third World Women: Postcolonial Feminist explorations in Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss

Bidhan Mondal

 

Interview

Jaydeep Sarangi with Jillian Sullivan

Ajit Kumar with Michelle Cohen Corasanti