Volume IV Issue I January-March 2024

Name of Author : Dr.P.Parthiban

Title of the paper : Writing Across Worlds: Transnationalism and Belonging in Meena Alexanders Manhattan Music

Abstract: Meena Alexanders Manhattan Music 1997 delves deeply into the significance of transnationalism and belonging through the paradigm of the Indian diaspora in New York City. This article investigates how Alexander constructs a narrative that navigates the tensions of belonging, identity, and displacement. Using the character of Sandhya Rosenblum, as well as other characters featured in the novel, Alexander builds a poetics of dislocation that reconciles multiple identities, cultures, and geographies. Using textual analysis, this article examines how transnational feminisms stress places of belonging within aesthetic movements by linking belonging to memory and the body, two sites of negotiation. This study argues that Manhattan Music redefines home as a dynamic, performative space forged through creative acts and the building of relationships, which at once engages with rootedness and offers a perspective on diasporic identity.cc

Keywords : Diasporic identity, Transnationalism and Belonging

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Page No. : 32-35