DISQUISITION ON DIASPORIC SURVIVAL: NOSTALGIA FOR HOME AND IDENTITY INVERONICA ROTH'S CARVE THE MARK

Abstract

Since the present-day research arena is populated with the arguments pertinent to Nostalgia, this paper aims to study the nostalgia that diasporas bump into. It centralizes the mental strife of the Diasporas for their home and identity. The novel taken for the study is Carve the Mark, written by young and spirited American author Veronica Roth. It chronicles the story of a displaced young protagonist in a fantasy universe with a background modelled on racial issues and colonisation. The society exploited by a dominant community and their quest for power and the people who are shattered by their dominance projected in this fiction, with the setting of an alien universe is taken for scrutiny. The power exploitation and the communal exploitation is resulting in the suffering of a group of people and they are displaced forcefully, but their minds are still sticking to their lost or robbed happy past and this sticking creates a longingness for the lost and a desire to have them back. The prominent target of this research is to study Nostalgia in a diaspora’s mind, through the characters in this fiction.