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As noted earlier, in Diaspora literature, most homes are constructed through the memories of the migrants. In relation to this, Manfred Jurgensen (1986) has argued that ethnic writers are ‘monocultural writers whose creative imagination remains restricted to a native culture (home) in exile’ (p. 81).
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Coming and going are denoted by the same word even in languages such as Bengali and Assamese as in ‘Aachi’ or ‘Ahisu’ respectively.
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Sarwal, A. (2017). Real, Imagined, and Mythologized: (Re)Presentation of Lost Home. In: South Asian Diaspora Narratives. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3629-3_5
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