The Novel No New Land As An Example Of Diasporic Literature

The stories are imperative for their substance as well as for their elaborate strategies. The goal/subjective position of the author as he describes as an insider, yet with the distanced perspective of an outsider. Requires an inconspicuous utilization of irony, which is obvious in the writings under thought. Linda Hutcheon states that "there is most likely that ethnic and racial minorities assume an extremely obvious part in postmodern culture today" and goes ahead to cite George Lipsitz's proposal that their "avoidance from political power and social acknowledgment has empowered them to develop an advanced limit with regards to uncertainty, juxtaposition, and irony - every key quality in the postmodern tasteful". Thus the utilization of irony is a tool that the immigrant writer’s adventures to remove himself from the experience, but to describe it from within, and project the individual narratives, that the postmodern aesthetic signifies as divided histories, through their writings. They build the past through recollections hut also utilize the construct as a metaphor to decipher the present: the metaphor turns into a tool to arrange the difficult passage of racism and alienation/antagonistic vibe that they experience in their everyday living.

No New Land is novel that has expressly anticipated the burdened circumstances of an immigrant in WASP society where either the Canadians are out to fleece them under the guise of acclimating them with the Canadian atmosphere, for instance the sale to which Nurdin and his family are welcomed, offered snacks and drinks and afterward requested payment, or on the other hand be it the racist assault on Elaise at the metro station or the treatment that Nurdin gets at the hands of his female employer at the restaurant. The only approach to battle the bigotry and otherness is by being too good at their own game, that is achievable and certainty as is typified in Jamaal. The first generation migrants may have certain challenges in acclimating to the new vibe, however the second era, the youngsters, adjust well since they will acclimatize into Canadian culture as this is the thing that would make them culturally acceptable among their companions. Consequently, the picture is clear: success is what counts in this new world and the confidence to brazen out all marginalizing strategies and demand one's rights.

The novels written by the South Asian immigrant novelists contain little evidence of themes or subjects which might be identified with the religion of South Asia. But, most of them are indirectly related to South Asia, since their ancestors originate from the South Asian region. Their theme fluctuate yet would one can see in them the journey for identity. No New Land follows the direction of most South Asian Canadian Writers in step by step talking about Canadian subjects in their work. If Canadian Literature is defined as literature written about Canada, the most South-Asian Canadian writers have a tendency to end up plainly more Canadian the more they remain in Canada. Neil Bissoondath looking into No New land takes the writer for what he sees as a "need to present the whole, to be a kind of literary ringmaster for the community circus". He contends that Vassanji's attempt to depict the entire Ishmaeli community in Toronto to keep him from creating fully individualized characters. In critical insights are to be set aside, things aplenty noticeable include that Vassanji creates a brilliant character draws regardless of whether his central point is to give a cross-section perspective of the East-African Ishmaeli community in Toronto.

In the event that a completely Canadian analogy might be utilized, No New Land is more similar to Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town than The Stone Angel each great in its own specific way. No New Land appears to indicate integration and assimilation of the children of the immigrants into Canadian Society. It does not advocate anything, however, offers a sincere, realistic, informed and a persuasive appraisal of the fate of South Asian immigration in Canada.