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In the domain of diasporic writing large number of writers put their insights in the creative and critical ways. They present their insights in connection with their experiences. The Diasporic communities possess collective memory and myth about the homeland, including its location, history, suffering and achievements. When these migrant people suffer from the feeling of loneliness and up-rootedness, their mind ultimately goes back in the memory for the happy and glorious past. They have an elegiac feeling about their present condition in the host country. Nostalgia is a consequential effect of the homelessness in the new land, as well as loss of home in the motherland. A number of Diasporic writers have incorporated and accentuated the theme of nostalgia in their writing which occurred because of their exile which is always prevailing and recapitulating in their mind-set. In the present paper the researcher explores the nostalgia in the novel Loetorn. The major characters becomes nostalgic because of their present critical situation which is the major concern of the present paper.
Nostalgia, diaspora, alienation, history, myth, location, relocation, history etc, Nostalgia, diaspora, alienation, history, myth, location, relocation, history etc.
Nostalgia, diaspora, alienation, history, myth, location, relocation, history etc, Nostalgia, diaspora, alienation, history, myth, location, relocation, history etc.
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