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Abbas, Hussein Ali; Mani, Manimangai; Yahya, Wan Roselezam Wan; Singh, Hardev Kaur Jujar – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2017
Establishing a sense of affiliation to ethnicity is one of the most controversial issues for people who are displaced in countries that are far away from their motherland. The colonisation of the British over Asia and Africa in the nineteenth century resulted in the mass movement of Indian workers from India to Africa. These workers were brought…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Ethnic Groups, Immigrants, Land Settlement
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Ghoreishi, Seyedeh Zahra; Bordbari, Zahra – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
This paper delves into Jhumpa Lahiri's 2013 novel, "The Lowland", to analyze the diasporic experience of the Indianborn characters. Homi Bhabha's postcolonial approach is utilized to demonstrate the ways in which the characters perceive the immigration experience, and to unravel the causes of their despair, the disintegration of their…
Descriptors: Novels, Indians, Immigration, Immigrants
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Siamardi, Tahereh; Deedari, Reza – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
The focus of the present study is to demonstrate traces of Homi k. Bhabha's notion of identity in V. S. Naipaul's "A House for Mr. Biswas" (1961). As a prominent postcolonial figure, Bhabha has contemplated over the formation of identity in the colonizing circumstances. He discusses on what happens to the colonizer and the colonized…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Foreign Policy, Novels, Sociocultural Patterns
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Riaz, Humaira; Babaee, Ruzbeh – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2015
The purpose of this study is to investigate the "diasporic consciousness" of the fictional characters, incorporated in selected work of Pakistani expatriate writer Kamila Shamsie through the portrayal of cross-cultural differences. This study attempts to unravel the inner-alienation that sustains through specific discourses and events…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Authors, Fiction, Literary Devices
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Shabankare, Nasser Najafi; Mehrabi, Bahar – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
As one of the contemporary Iranian women writers living in the U.S, Goli Taraqqi's fiction is mostly concerned with pains and difficulties of migrant Iranian women in other countries. Bearing a biographical resemblance, her sequence collection to "Scattered Memories," entitled "Two Worlds" retells interrelated short stories of…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Females, Authors, Fiction
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Murray Bettina P. – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2018
Urban college students (n=179) from diverse cultural backgrounds and regions received instruction in the writing of short narratives, or allegories, to express generalizations about human behavior. At the beginning of the three-month semester students were given samples of allegories concluding with a lesson and then were asked to create an…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Urban Areas, College Students, Student Diversity