Constructing Diasporic Identity A Study of Gender and Sexuality in Select Diasporic Women Poets

Abstract

The thesis Constructing Diasporic Identity: A Study of Gender and newlineSexuality in Select Diasporic Women Poets explores how the constructs of newlinegender and sexuality contribute to the literary expression of female diasporic newlineidentities. The study focuses on select women poets of South Asian diaspora newlinewho have spent their lives across Europe and the United States- Meena newlineAlexander, Himani Bannerji, Suniti Namjoshi and Imtiaz Dharker. The newlinediasporic identity they have created is an intersection of diaspora, gender and newlinesexuality. These women poets have placed the third world immigrant women in newlinethe threshold of the liminal space of diaspora where they perform gender and newlinesexuality, transcending the national, patriarchal and religious barriers. newline