Abstract

This paper attempts to study the diasporic dimension of Indian diasporic writer late Aga Shahid Ali who emigrated from Kashmir to America. Aga Shahid Ali narrates the loss of his homeland due to enforced migration and exhibit the original exilic resonance of diasporic experience. In his poetic collection ‘the country without a post office’, the poet articulates diasporic experience of exile, loss, pain and creates possibilities of Kashmiri diaspora in America. Key words: Aga Shahid Ali, the country without a post office, diaspora.

Highlights

  • The term Diaspora refers to the work of exiles and expatriates and all those who have experienced unsettlement and dislocation at the political, existential or metaphorical levels and diaspora literature involves an idea of a homeland, a place from where the displacement occurs

  • Aga Shahid Ali chose to be in exile in order to pursue his career

  • Avtar Brah writes that the term diaspora embodies a notion of center, a locus, a home from where the dispersion occurs

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Bilquees Dar Arshiddar

This paper attempts to study the diasporic dimension of Indian diasporic writer late Aga Shahid Ali who emigrated from Kashmir to America. Aga Shahid Ali narrates the loss of his homeland due to enforced migration and exhibit the original exilic resonance of diasporic experience. In his poetic collection ‘the country without a post office’, the poet articulates diasporic experience of exile, loss, pain and creates possibilities of Kashmiri diaspora in America

INTRODUCTION
Aga Shahid Ali as a Diasporic writer
From Zero Bridge
And this is the closest
The above couplet exhibits diasporic feeling of Aga
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