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C., Indulekha
- “Belonging nowhere and everywhere”: A Shift from First to Second Generation Diaspora in Jaishree Misra’s Ancient Promises
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International Journal of Innovative Research and Development, Vol 3, No 2 (2014), Pagination:Abstract
Majority of the post-colonial writers consciously or unconsciously accentuate to diasporic writing. The displaced and marginalized self of the protagonist within this discourse, usually treated as the “other,” ultimately finds compromise with his/her hybrid identity, who eternally long for their ‘imaginary homelands.’ Janaki in Jaishree Misra’s Ancient Promises, the novel undertaken for study, is a victim of alienation and oppression by the dominant forces in the society. Her split consciousness owing to her Keralite blood and Delhi upbringing accelerates the distortion of her individuality, making her a deportee in her own motherland, and further pushing her to cross-cultural ambiguity. This paper attempts to explore the paradox latent in the diasporic writing within the sub-text of the novel where the protagonist feels upischolar_mained and replanted among her own people and pines for an expatriate alien identity, which is peculiar to the second-generation migrant thought.
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diaspora, hybrid identity, homeland, expatriate- The Bachelor Voice in Larkin's Poetry
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International Journal of Innovative Research and Development, Vol 3, No 3 (2014), Pagination:Abstract
In the 1950s there was no one British poet who embodied the spirit of the age as T.S. Eliot and W.B. Yeats had for previous generations. In the middle of the 1950s, a new generation of poetic built upon the old collectively called as Movement poets emerged with Philip Larkin as its poetic exemplar. His poetry is intended on telling the truth about life as it is and represents the voice of an accumulated experience of Larkin as a poet and Larkin as a person. He never married in his life and his poetry expresses considerable bewilderment about the prospects of sexual happiness and wedded bliss along with his ambivalent feeling of his failure to have a ‘home’. Satirically, he disregards marriage, for to marry means, he believes, losing one's freedom. Sex is pictured in his poems as deceptive, and its promise proves to be empty or false and miserably disruptive. This paper aims to show the bachelor-self of the poet recurring in some of his poems.