"Story-Wallah"

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The paper describes the book, "Story-Wallah" by Shyam Selvadurai, which compiles a multitude of stories that depict the forced migration of individuals to other lands. The paper discusses issues that are raised in the stories with relation to migrants and how they cope in their search for new identities in their new countries.

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" Migration: The Search for Home and Identity The book, Story-Wallah by Shyam Selvadurai compiles a multitude of stories that depict the forced migration of individuals to other lands. Their plight is complicated further by their visions of what "home" will be, of the lives they leave behind and the new worlds that are gained, and by their search for new identities that are expressed through cultural differences and gender expectations. Migrants imagine home as a place that allow for them to discover their own identity without believing that they are outcast from the social order and made to feel as though society will always be a separate element from their existence. Selvadurai explains that the term used to describe the stories in the book, "despora" signifies a "scattering of seeds"."

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