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- Title
Exploring the Diasporic Identity in Anita Rau Badami's Tamarind woman and The Hero's Walk.
- Authors
Camalame, K.; Florence, S.
- Abstract
Canadian literature is now increasingly being recognized as a multi-cultural one. The emergence of women writers across the culture forms a significant feature in Diasporic writings. Their writings try to voice the hopes, aspirations and frustrations of the people with empathy and authenticity. These women writers bring with them the rich baggage of cultural, linguistic, racial and religious diversity. Though varied in culture, they share a deep interest in evolving female culture and emancipation of women. One such writer is Anita Rau Badami. Her writing is characterized by cross cultural conflicts. She attempts to explore the nuances of Diasporic consciousness by the picturesque portrayal of women characters. All her novels suggest to a form of diasporic identity that is not necessarily bound to transnational border crossings. Rather it thematizes the ways in which the effects of environmental and economic global restructuring moulds the character's national and cultural identity. This article aims to study how these two features of Diaspora fashions the writings of Badami and thereby forming the patterns of diasporic identification.
- Subjects
DIASPORA; CANADIAN literature; BADAMI, Anita Rau; BORDER crossing in literature; SOCIAL conflict in literature
- Publication
Labyrinth: An International Refereed Journal of Postmodern Studies, 2013, Vol 4, Issue 1, p83
- ISSN
0976-0814
- Publication type
Article