The Diasporising of Home: An Exploration of Space, Identity, and Domesticity in the Selected Works of Tanuja Desai Hidier and Chitra Banerjee

Abstract

Every human being is part of a particular society and societies are made up of different races, cultures and ethnicities. Society plays decisive role in the identity formation of a particular human being. Human being can’t live life completely dependent on his own persona but needs others to continue the passage of life.  So, for the continuation of the passage of life, socialization is important for the human being, and within this process of socialization an individual can never be isolated in a self-contained environment but must engage in interaction with the rest of the surroundings. Human being needs to have certain societal relations, which in turn will keep him confined within the norms and the established societal set up. But due to certain compulsions, by own will or by any other calamity the established set-up gets dispersed or scattered and then the human being needs some other geographical space to continue the passage of life. This dispersion or the scattering of the people, language, or culture that was formerly concentrated on one place is called Diaspora, (originated from the Greek word “Dia” meaning through or “Speria” means dispersion or sow).

Keywords: Socialization, self-contained environment, compulsions, social set up, scattering, calamity, Diaspora,