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Manhattan Music by Meena Alexander explores the themes of diasporic reality, dislocation, and rebirth. The paper examines how Meena Alexander’s novel explores the diasporic experience and how the effect of dislocation influencing the nature of the characters. The objectives of the study are to study the diasporic experience as depicted in the novel, Manhattan Music, to analyse the theme of dislocation in Meena Alexander’s novel, to analyse the characters from the multicultural setting of the novel, to examine the novel critically in the postcolonial perspectives. The paper analyses the diasporic reality faced by the characters in the novel Manhattan Music dislocated from their homeland. In the host land they not only felt alienation and rootlessness, they were trying to improve their life in new land which indicated the rebirth of self the immigrants, that is an urgent need to go with the flow.
Mrs. Moumita Bera. “Diasporic Reality, Dislocation and Rebirth: A Critical Study of the Novel Manhattan Music by Meena Alexander.” The Criterion: An International Journal in English, vol. 17, no. 3, June 2026, pp. 147-162. DOI, https://doi.org/10.66376/criterion.v17.n3.11.
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