Asian Diaspora Essay -- English Literature

Asiatic DiasporaAsian diaspora, or the personalized and cultural implications of leaving cardinals homeland, is a aboriginal and reaccuring theme for Asian Americanwriters. Diaspora is Greek for the scattering of seeds(http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaspora), and its ancient extension phonehas taken figurative meaning today as a olfactory perception of seperation anddetachment. In both Fae Myenne Ngs Bone and Chitra BanerjeeDivakarunis Leaving Yuba City, a thematic thread of scatteredparts, outsiderness, and otherness link the characters in each, aswell as the two seperate works, together. This diaspora affects each times of immigrants in a slighly different, but no lesssignficant, way. As an aspect of diasora, W.E.B. DuBoiss nonion of bivalent consciousness in The Souls of Black Folk, takes the shape ofa personal wave-particle duality for the characters in Bone and Leaving Yuba City. Their lives looking through DuBoiss veil creates personal strugglein the characters relationship with America, maintaining two alone(predicate)cultural identities simultaneously. The characters in Ngs novel Bone work to conceive a third identity,one that maintains old traditions while beingness Americanized. Thisstuggle is not exclusive to the first generation Chinese immigrants,Leon and Mah, but has profoundly impacted their American raisedchildren, Leila, Nina, and Ona. However, the consequences of this run afoul is different between the generations. Leon cannot settleinto one place but is all at once here, suddenly gone (54). Leonsstray jobs are often on a ship, and Leila concludes that the draw ofthe hollow and still center of the ocean for him is completion(150). The social movement of Leons absense, or vacancy of personal wholeness,is his Chinese self trying to chan... ...haracters in Leaving Yuba City and Bone are connected through commonalty seperation from their homeland, or dual selves seen in allgenerations. This common diaspora creates a unique and painful fam ilydynamic for the Leong family their incompleteness binds themtogether. For Sushma in Leaving Yuba City, she does not feelseperation from homeland, but lives denying a fundamental part ofherself, which is much alike(p) a homeland. Their is an incongruance orseperation between the person others can see, and the person she truly is. Sushma personifies DuBoiss veil. An extremist view ofdiaspora is The Maimed Dancing Men, having ghost limbs, and beingphysically incomplete. Ng and Divakaruni portray the same desperateand painful feelings that pass off with a seperation from both yourhomeland, and self, showing these two are inseperable and fundamentalto ones wholeness.