Snehasis Maiti

The Diasporic Vision: 'home' in Select Novels of Salman Rushdie , Rohinton Mistry & Bharati Mukherjee Snehasis Maiti

Fiction by Indian diasporic authors occupies a significant space in the body of Indian English Literature. Diasporic fiction very naturally deals with the question of ?Home? as the writers seem to be perpetually haunted by a sense of rootlessness and at the same time to be continually in search of a ?home? as the process of migration results in a ?homeless? condition. For every dislocation there is a primary location. For every diaspora there is a lost /left homeland. And for every homeland there is a ?homeland myth?. The book, taking representative novels of three major writers of Indian diaspora, seeks to explore the different ways of looking back at the lost homeland.