Citation :

Dr. Sumitra Huidrom, Saleha Nizam, 2026. "Alienation in Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire and Burnt Shadows: an Orientalist Perspective" ESP-International Journal of English Literature and Linguistics Research (ESP- IJELLR)  Volume 4, Issue 1: 1-9.

Abstract :

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the theme of alienation in Kamila Shamsie’s Burnt Shadows and Home Fire. Since Shamsie writes about the difficulties of assimilating to a foreign country with its own culture and beliefs, her works in some ways mirror her own diasporic experience as an immigrant. Readers can get a glimpse of immigrant life and the on-going struggle between the home country and the foreign nation through these novels. On the basis of Edward Said’s Orientalism, an attempt is made to examine the idea of alienation in the respective novels by tracing the protagonists’ journeys in the concerned texts.

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Keywords :

Alienation, Assimilation, Diaspora, Immigrant, Orientalism.