REPRESENTING THE IMMIGRANT SUBJECT: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF DIONNE BRAND'S ‘WHAT WE ALL LONG FOR'

Abstract

Migrants, who have left their homes and cultural settings and they begin a new life coping up with different environment, which is extremely strange to them. Dionne Brand is a Canadian Novelist,  who has concerned about the multicultural politics and Community in Canada. She highlights the Post Colonialism, Immigration and figured out the Vietnamese Refugees as well. Dionne Brand effortlessly delves out the unexplored aspects of urban life, lost homelands and the pros and cons of youths, in one of her extraordinary novels what We All Long For . Immigrants who are trying to re-establish their homelands is astoundingly portrayed by the author. The novel revolves around the overlapping stories of a close circle of friends living in a race conscious and class conscious city named Toronto. The first generation Vietnamese Canadians were explicitly portrayed. The Immigrants we encounter in this novel are Tuyen, Oku, Carla and Jackies parents who tried to relocate their homes in an adopted country, Canada. They are obsessed with a lost homeland. The novel explores the Universal Experience of Being Human.