কেতকী কুশারী ডাইসনের কবিতায় ডায়াসপোরা : শিকড়, স্মৃতি ও স্থানচ্যুতির নন্দনতাত্ত্বিক পাঠ/ Diaspora in the Poetry of Ketaki Kushari Dyson: An Aesthetic Reading of Roots, Memory, and Displacement

Abstract

Diaspora is an important theoretical field in contemporary literary studies. Diaspora literature reflects the multidimensional experience of migration, displacement, memory, self-identity and cultural reconstruction in literary and aesthetic form. In the poetry of Ketaki Kushari Dyson, one of the leading poets of Bengali diaspora literature, these experiences create a unique poetic language combining personal feelings and collective cultural memory. In Ketaki Kushari Dyson's poetry, deep attachment to motherland, search for roots, trauma of exile, crisis of linguistic identity, cultural duality and multicultural life-experience are intimately intertwined to create a unique aesthetic of diasporic consciousness. The present essay analyzes aesthetic representations of diasporic experience in the light of selected poems by Ketaki Kushari Dyson. An attempt has been made to uncover the underlying significance of his poetry, particularly through the interrelationship of roots, memory and displacement.