Open AccessLocation of Diaspora in V.S. Naipaul’s A Bend in the River
Author(s) -
S. K. Mishra
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
kmc research journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2565-4977
DOI - 10.3126/kmcrj.v1i1.28238
Subject(s) - diaspora , alienation , identity (music) , immigration , gender studies , displacement (psychology) , identity crisis , sociology , dislocation , history , psychoanalysis , political science , aesthetics , art , archaeology , psychology , social science , law , face (sociological concept) , materials science , composite material
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.