Contemporary Contemplations on Diasporic Literature

by Suresh Frederick and Samuel Rufus

2018346 pages

About the book

The new millennium has been host to a new phase of displacements, bordering crossings and migrations, resulting in new diasporic hybrid subjectivities characterized by the trial of life in a new land. Hence a reevaluation and reassessment of the traditional literary canon assumes all the more importance in the light of the stereotyped portrayal of the diasporic hybrid through a pejorative label. ‘Writing back’ at this crucial juncture, then, becomes a strategy to counter the ‘epistemic violence’ of the canon, by offering profound critiques on the resultant new identities that emerge from these ‘diasporic hybrid subjectivities.’ The scholarly array of essays lined up in this book: Contemporary Contemplations on Diasporic Literature, strive to address these compelling issues in all its vitality.