GLOBALIZATION, SOUTH ASIAN DIASPORA AND IDENTITY: COVERAGE OF TRAUMA OF HOMELESSNESS IN ANGLOPHONE CULTURAL PRODUCTIONS

Abstract

This study focuses on the networks between the concept of home and the spaces of residence
in the globalized city of London, highlighting how the different trajectories of home resurface
in memories of the South Asian diasporic community. This endeavor exposes how, in the oft
(ac)claimed globalized world, the cultural as well as psychological baggage of home poses
challenges for people who are away from their native home and are living in their home of
residence. So, the questions which are investigated here in this postcolonial analysis of Monica
Ali’s Bricklane are: How does home appear to postcolonial diasporas in the globalized world?
And what does returning ‘home’ teach us about the inequalities and injustices underlying the
current global order? Using the qualitative method of analyzing the aforementioned novel,
with special reference to globalization and postcolonial literary theory, this research unearths
the problems, which are faced by the South Asian diasporic communities, further highlighting
the issue why, every now and then, the South Asian diasporic writers are haunted by their
ancestral homes. This research records and analyzes the account given by the Bangladeshi
diasporic novelist and is thus helpful in knowing and understanding the complex and oft
ignored problems, associated with the concept of home and belonging in the globalized world.