期刊名称：Lapis Lazuli : an International Literary Journal
电子版ISSN：2249-4529
出版年度：2014
卷号：4
期号：2
出版社：Pinter Society of India
摘要：The globalised world has witnessed the emergence of the immigrant communities who are carrying forward the legacy of the age old dispersal of the people from home country to a foreign land. Mass mobility has become a frequent postcolonial phenomenon that associates itself with dislocation, rootlessness, alienation, racial subjugation and search for identity. These immigrant experiences have been effectively recorded and theorised in various creative as well as in critical writings. The diasporic female authors and critics too have stepped forward to reflect the women.s perspective regarding the struggle of the immigrant women who are trying to adjust in their new settlements fighting against both the racial and gender biasness to find a dignified way of living. The present paper will attempt to discuss two novels — Sunetra Gupta.s Memories of Rain and Meena Alexander.s Manhattan Music — for the illustration of such experiences
