Volume 6 : Issue 3 (2019)

The Bliss of Belonging: Reading Elsewhere, Home By Leila Aboulela

The present paper tries to understand the themes of migration, displacement and the meaning of belonging to a place with reference to the short story collection Elsewhere, Home published in 2018, written by critically acclaimed Sudanese writer Leila Aboulela. Moving to a new country is always not the key to realise ones all dreams because everything from culture, traditions, geographical territories, political leanings to identity changes when one migrates into a different new world and things do not always work the way one has thought or believed. The paper also tries to comprehend the meaning of home as it gives one the sense of identity and belonging. The paper looks at the complicated lives and identities of the minorities, refugees and immigrants in Diaspora and the way they think about the true meaning of home and a sense of getting accepted in a foreign land.

Identity, home, displacement, migration, belonging.