Routledge Handbook of Indian Diaspora Writers

Bijender Singh is PhD Co-supervisor in the Department of English at Shri Jagdishprasad Jhabarmal Tibrewala University, Jhunjhunu, Rajasthan, India. He is the Editor-in-Chief of The Expression: An International Multidisciplinary e-Journal.Protibha Mukherjee Sahukar is the Principal of Durga Mahavidyalaya, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India.Surendra Kumar Sao is the Principal of Late Shri Jaidev Satpathi Government College, Basna, District Mahasamund, Chhattisgarh, India.Anurag Ambasta is Dean and Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Xavier University, Patna, Bihar, India.

• Introduction: The Palimpsest of Syncretic Identities in Indian Diaspora LiteratureBijender SinghA General Introduction to the HandbookBijender Singh, Protibha Mukherjee Sahukar, Surendra Kumar Sao, and Anurag AmbastaPART 1Memory, Trauma, and the Immigrant Experience1 Magical Realism in Rashida Murphy's The Historian's DaughterAncy Eapen2 Unhomed at Homeland and Hostland: Diasporic Trauma in Bharati Mukherjee's WifeKeshab Sigdel3 Dual Identities in a Globalized World: Jhumpa Lahiri's The NamesakeElham Hossain4 The Reverberations of Trauma, Memory, and Healing in Anjana Appachana's Fear and LovelyGuni Vats and Mouli Chowdhury5 Resonances of Pain: Psychological Trauma and Resilience in Thrity Umrigar's The Space Between UsMohanapriya6 Jemubhai Patel's Colonial Mania and Biju's Diasporic Dilemma in Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of LossUpakul Patowary and Jeuti Talukdar7 Reclaiming the Unclaimed: Memory, Identity, and Belonging in Uma Parameswaran's What Was Always HersSayan Mukherjee and Naqui Ahmad John8 Trauma of Domestic Violence and Queer Liminality in Shani Mootoo's Cereus Blooms at NightBaiju Krishnan and Deepanjali BaruahPART 2Exile, Nostalgia, and Migration9 Homeland, Exile, and Memory: Tracing Diasporic Identity in Meena Alexander's Fault LinesSadia Afroz10 The Diasporic within: Internal Exile and External Migration in Padma Viswanathan's The Toss of a LemonSmita Sharma and Nisha Dubey11 Double Migration, Alienation, and Powerlessness in M.G. Vassanji's No New LandSrinivas Kathyayini and V. Lakshmi Prasanna12 The Quixotic Dream and Endless Struggle: Exigency, Vicissitude, and Ambiguous Legacy in V.S. Naipaul's A House for Mr BiswasKusum Kangar13 The Shadow of Colonialism: Belonging and Cultural Dislocation in Rohinton Mistry's Such a Long JourneyRaajitha Rachuri14 The Arabatized Man: Transience, Migration, and Precarity in Deepak Unnikrishnan's Temporary PeopleSonia Srivastava and Shramita Pandey15 Diasporic Consciousness and Korobi's Journey of Self‑Actualization in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's Oleander GirlSwayam Prava Mishra16 Acculturation Stress and Generational Diasporic Differences in Tanuja Desai's Born ConfusedKumari Shikha and Dipali Sharma BhandariPART 3Gender, Marginalization, and Empowerment17 Wandering Whispers of the Drifting Hearts in Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's Heat and DustTabassum Islam Nabanee18 Reading Gendered Experiences of Migration in Anita Rau Badami's Can You Hear the Nightbird Call?Ravi Kant and Asit Panda19 Identity Constructs in Anita Desai's Bye‑Bye BlackbirdGurpyari Bhatnagar and Lakshmi Subramanian20 Roots and Routes: Mapping Diasporic Terrains in Meera Syal's Anita and MeSuruchi Sharma21 Ethical Dilemma, Surrogacy, and Selfhood: Navigating Gender, Class, Identity, and Personal Growth in Amulya Malladi's A House for Happy MothersMeenu Dudeja22 Shauna Singh Baldwin's What the Body Remembers: Memory, Trauma, and the Female ExperienceRashmi Jain23 Humour as Cultural Critique: Charting Diasporic Masculinity and Identity in Anurag Mathur's The Inscrutable AmericansSnigdha Bhatt and Mamta Rani24 Neither Here, Nor Whole: Queer In‑Betweenness and Diasporic Disillusionment in Neel Patel's If You See Me, Don't Say HiVishwajeet and Anjila Singh Mehla25 Cultural Displacement and Identity Crisis: A Feminist Study of Moni's Cross‑Cultural Marriage in Sunetra Gupta's Memories of RainSwati Mittal and Shivani VashistPART 4Power, Politics, and Postcolonialism26 A Study of Agentic Materiality of Waste Explored through the Diasporic Discourse in Amitav Ghosh's The Hungry TideCelin Raichel Sarona and David Jeyaraj Franklin T.27 Poisoned Lives, Resilient Spirits: Unveiling Environmental Injustice in Indra Sinha's Animal's PeopleSuresh Frederick28 Saleem Sinai and Magic Realism: A Study of the Conflation of History and National Trajectory in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's ChildrenAsha Prabhakaran and Preetha Prabhasan29 Power Politics and the Postcolonial Discourse in Suketu Mehta's This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant's ManifestoNigar Ahmed and Archana M. Sardana30 From Homeland to Hostile Land: A Postcolonial Analysis of Kamala Markandaya's The Nowhere ManMeenu Bhola and Sakshi Singh31 Postcolonial Migration and Identity: Analysing Pran Nath's Fluid Identity Portrayed in Hari Kunzru's The ImpressionistMilind Solanki and Hetal MeriyaPART 5Cultural Hybridity, Relationships, Nature, and Social Strictures32 Satire and Social Strictures: Marriage and Identity in Vikram Seth's A Suitable BoyReshu Singh33 Navigating the Mystical and Cultural Landscapes in Easterine Kire's When the River Sleeps: A Study of Naga Identity and Spiritual ResilienceDhiman Chakraborty and A. Joshua Pravin Kumar34 Generational Conflicts and the Collapse of Family in Neel Mukherjee's The Lives of OthersArchana and P. Kiranmai35 The Dystopian Reality of Organ Trade in a Hyper‑Technological World in Manjula Padmanabhan's HarvestKalyan Pattanayak and Mayank Kumar36 The Recondite Secrets, Sinister Shadows in Warp and Weft of Twisted Truths Camouflaging Deception and Danger in Sujata Massey's The Widows of Malabar HillShailja Bahadur and Ram Sebak Thakur37 Beyond the Ramp: Religious Boundaries, Cultural Dogma, and Metamorphosis of Self in Kavita Daswani's Salaam ParisShikha Saxena38 Articulating the New Britishness: Rudeboys and Cultural Hybridity in Gautam Malkani's LondonstaniKshamata Chaudhary and Poonam Nigam Sahay