People of a Lost Country: Exile and Sense of Dislocation Transmitted in the Poems of Tenzin Tsundue

Abstract

The proposed research paper seeks to study the notion of home which has been defined and redefined in various ways predominantly in diasporic, partition and exile literature as history and heritage of thousands of years linked to it and the way this association was broken. Home became a floating signifier with each literary piece penned down with angst of exile. Tenzin Tsundue, an unusual blend of an activist and a writer articulates collective consciousness of the Tibetan people in exile. The target poems published in Kora, a collection of stories and poems written by Tenzin Tsundue analyze how the word ‘exile’ is catastrophic in many ways, how excruciating it is to untie with home/nation.