Author(s): Ashish R. Katore

Abstract: The concept of diasporic consciousness insightfully discusses issues such as migration, struggle for identity, and settlement of migrants across the borders of the homeland, alienation and loneliness, etc. In particular, diasporic literature explores the self-identity, socio-cultural values, and socio-political autonomy of individuals in a foreign land. The Indian diasporic literature, surprisingly enough, describes the pains of immigration, their traumatic experiences, and the struggle for cultural assimilation in the host-land. This paper is concerned with the reflection of diasporic consciousness in the writings of Meena Alexander (1951-2018). She was one of the most influential Indian English poets. The focus is on her poetry and novels, which explore the relationship between Indian culture and foreign culture, as well as the relationship between memory and present reality. Meena Alexander appears as a prominent female poet on the literary map of Indian women's writing. Her poems and trend-setting novels and other carefully crafted literary works have earned her literary reputation as a serious and skilled writer. She has earned a name for herself for her remarkable contribution to the development of the art in Indian writing. This paper will explain how Meena Alexander, in her writings, is trying to present the problems of Indians living abroad to the world through terms used in diasporic literature, such as identity crisis, multiculturalism, alienation and loneliness etc.

Keywords: Diaspora, displacement, alienation, identity, loneliness, Culture.

DOI:10.61165/sk.publisher.script.writing.2024.32

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Diasporic Consciousness in Meena Alexander’s Writings

Pages:150-153