Location of Diaspora in V.S. Naipaul’s A Bend in the River

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  • Sanjay Kumar Mishra Patan Multiple Campus, TU, Nepal

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3126/kmcrj.v1i1.28238

Keywords:

Diaspora, identity crisis, alienation, decolonization, neo-colonization

Abstract

The paper explores the traumatic experiences of diaspora in V. S. Naipaul’s A Bend in the River. It shows how immigrants turn vulnerable in a newly decolonized world. It argues that people suffer from identity crisis when they are culturally and geographically alienated. Identity is inextricably bound up with the notion of location. It analyses the traumatic experiences of diaspora problem of making identity, finding and making location are revealed through Naipaul’s writing. It brings to light the expression of identity in diaspora belonging and alienation diaspora, exile, dislocation and displacement.

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Sanjay Kumar Mishra, Patan Multiple Campus, TU, Nepal

Associate Professor of English

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Published

2017-06-29

How to Cite

Mishra, S. K. (2017). Location of Diaspora in V.S. Naipaul’s A Bend in the River. KMC Research Journal, 1(1), 1–8. https://doi.org/10.3126/kmcrj.v1i1.28238

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