Nostalgia, Home and Palestine: Tracing the Diasporic Elements in the Works of Hala Alyan.

In the present era of globalization people are continuously on the move from one geographical location to another. This move turns into migration when they settle at a place other than their home and during their permanent settlement at a new location, other than their own country, they maintain a connection with the people of their community over there to remember and preserve the culture, heritage and ethnicity create diaspora. If the diaspora is voluntary, people try to assimilate the new culture and sometimes create a hybrid culture by mixing the ethnic culture with the culture of the host nation. But if it is forced diaspora then initially the diasporic population tries to resist the change and long to return to their homeland. Hala Alyan is a Palestinian American author. Her novels and poems provide moving references to the Palestinian diaspora which comprises, the Palestinian exodus caused by the declaration of the independent state of Israel in 1948, followed by the Seven Days War of 1967, with ample light on the life of refugees in camps and other hardships and psychological traumas caused by displacement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]