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No Place to Call Home: Representation of Forced Migration and Exile in South Asian Literature

Abstract Given that home and homelessness are deeply rooted in cultural, social, technological and economic conditions of modern society, this paper examines them in the specific context of geopolitical shifts in the Indian Subcontinent. It investigates how the communities of compelled migrants cope with the “condition of terminal loss” (Said 173), negotiate their identity amidst class conflict and politics of the host country and strategies employed, if any, to achieve recognition and legitimacy. The literary texts under consideration are narratives of dislocation that haunt the present, producing what Bhabha has called an “unhomed” state. This paper also investigates the relationship between forced migrants and their adopted homeland while highlighting their alleged presence in South Asia.