Abhinaba Chatterjee

Independent Research Scholar

abhinaba0000@gmail.com

Postcolonial Diasporic and Transnational Indian English literature

In what ways might diaspora studies and transnationalism be linked to the

contemporary phenomenon of global English, with a mode of comprehending the

world that holds English at its center? What can diaspora studies and

transnationalism learn from the "language question" frequently raised in

discussions of both cultural imperialism and postcolonial writing? What can they

learn from the question of globalism now so ubiquitous in contemporary criticism?

These questions outline the conceptual terrain of this paper, in which I read the

discursive transmutation of the discipline of Postcolonial Studies into "Literature in

English" as both symptom and cause of the emerging visibility of global English as

a recognizable disciplinary configuration situated on the line between

contemporary culture and the academy.

The literature of the Indian diaspora comprises an important part of the

burgeoning field of Anglophone postcolonial literature. This paper will argue for

the importance of the hybridity inherent in the global English in terms of loss and

gain, as depicted in select Indian English literature.

Keywords: Diaspora, Transnationalism, Postcolonialism, Global English