Papers by Dilshad Hilloona
NIU International Journal of Human Rights
The study aims to review selected Indian diasporic fiction written after 1990, to discuss current... more The study aims to review selected Indian diasporic fiction written after 1990, to discuss current diasporic patterns such as tensions and connections between host and home community, membership, isolation, inclusion and identification of diasporic groups. This thesis reflects on how literary room appears as a sphere of articulation for Indian women diasporic writers who straddle India and America. It appears as a place of digging out the peripheral voices of immigrant women that appear to be buried in masculine prose. It also explores diasporic women's perspectives from the point of view of female diasporic scholars. In this phase, language has become an instrument for diaspora women writers to dig out diaspora experiences such as dislocation, deterritorialization, re-territorialization, immigrant position on border territory, identity construction-deconstruction and reconstruction and disillusionment with international culture. Present research attempted to dissect the diaspora from the viewpoint of 'space,' while expanding the understanding of the diaspora only from the perspective of imagined and actual space. In a related effort, my study is also an intrusion to address the changing existence of diasporic women defying oppressive or masochistic society.
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Papers by Dilshad Hilloona