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Memories in/of Diaspora: Barlen Pyamootoo's Bénarès (1999)
- L'Esprit Créateur
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 50, Number 2, Summer 2010
- pp. 46-62
- 10.1353/esp.0.0224
- Article
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Abstract
This article explores how the descendants of Indian migrants to Mauritius in Indo-Mauritian writer Barlem Pyamootoo's novel and film Bénarès, named after the sacred city in India, not only re-inscribe the signifier Banaras as a sign of colonial conquest and ownership, but use it to remember and re-imagine their homeland in their new home.
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