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Real, Imagined and Mythologised : (Re)presentation of Lost Home in Narratives of South Asian Diaspora in Australia
2016
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criticism
— Appears in: Narratives of Estrangement and Belonging : Indo-Australian Perspectives 2016; (p. 221-243)'In Diaspora literature, most 'homes' are constructed through the memories of the migrants - the idea of the belonging to someplace stable. In relation to this, Manfred Jurgensen (1986) has argued that ethnic writers are ‘monocultural writers whose creative imagination remains restricted to a native culture (home) in exile...’
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Real, Imagined and Mythologised : (Re)presentation of Lost Home in Narratives of South Asian Diaspora in Australia
2016
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Narratives of Estrangement and Belonging : Indo-Australian Perspectives 2016; (p. 221-243)'In Diaspora literature, most 'homes' are constructed through the memories of the migrants - the idea of the belonging to someplace stable. In relation to this, Manfred Jurgensen (1986) has argued that ethnic writers are ‘monocultural writers whose creative imagination remains restricted to a native culture (home) in exile...’
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Kandy,
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cEngland,ccUnited Kingdom (UK),cWestern Europe, Europe,
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