INDIAN DIASPORIC FICTION AND CINEMA IN THE AGE OF GLOBALISATION
INDIAN DIASPORIC FICTION AND CINEMA IN THE AGE OF GLOBALISATION

Summary/Abstract: Identities in the past have been simpler constructs with reference to even the diasporic populations. Tothe traditional constructions of identities based on language, race, religion and nation, the diasporicsadded the hyphenated and hybrid identity, in which they, especially the first generation diasporics,added elements of their new homelands to their old identities, and thereby constructed hyphenated identities such as Indo-Canadian, Indo-Australian, Indo-American. The movement from the hyphen to hybridity is generational and governed by the time and space of indwelling, like the movement during colonisation from mimesis after structural familiarity to hybridity - the process that contributed to resistance and eventual impelling of the coloniser.

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