Elements of Diaspora in Anita Desai’s Bye Bye Blackbird

Abstract

The word Diaspora has its part of signification in ancient Greek language which means separate. When it is related to the people it speaks about the cause of separating people from their homeland to different places across the world where they grow their culture. Diaspora literature can be defined as the literature generates by the writers who are apart from their homeland. The current material is an effort to consider the Diasporic section in the writings of Anita Desai the Indian woman novelist in spite there is a big list of Diaspora writers like V.S. Naipaul, Salman Rushdie, Rohinton Mistry, Bharathi Mukherjee, Amitav Ghosh, Jhumpa Lahiri, M.G Vassanji, Shyam selvadurai, and Kiran Desai.