Paper Title :Racial Violence in Meera Syal’s Anita and Me

Author :Shivali Sharma

Article Citation :Shivali Sharma , (2021 ) " Racial Violence in Meera Syal’s Anita and Me " , International Journal of Management and Applied Science (IJMAS) , pp. 75-77, Volume-7, Issue-2

Abstract : This paper dwells upon the impact of racial violence on the subjects who migrate to the adapted land. MeeraSyal is a British English writer who was born to Punjabi parents in Wolverhampton. She expresses her own scars of racial violence. The novel Anita and Me is believed to be a semi-autobiographical one. Meena is an Indian descendent. She has brought forth the diasporic consciousness which she faces due to her Indian parents. The work under review presents the difference between experience of the first and second generation migrants. They are subjected to the discrimination by the natives of the land they have migrated to. Meena is born and brought up in England. She considers herself English but feels humiliated at the racial remarks by the native British. She attempts to mix up well with her English friends. She grooms herself in a way so as to be recognised as English. All her aspirations to belong to England are dashed to ground when she witnesses racial violence and listens to racial remarks made by the ones whom she considers her friends. Keywords - Host Land, Diasporic Consciousness, First and Second Generation Migrants, Racial Violence, Racial Remarks

Type : Research paper

Published : Volume-7, Issue-2

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