Abstract:
The treatment of refugees in host lands and their belongingness play a critical role in
literary texts concerned with refugees’ experiences. Merging literary texts with political theory,
this thesis explores the endless struggles that refugees go through in their new states in the West,
especially in the U.S. Despite the fact that they are supposed to be given shelter and protection in
the host states under international rule, these displaced groups of people, who are forcibly driven
out of their countries of origin, face the same fear of violence and persecution in the host
countries. Through a close scrutiny of the refugee experiences depicted in four selected literary
texts, I argue on the ambiguity of refugee-citizenship in the host states where refugees, losing
their own roots are brought into the paradigm of global politics that further complicates their
belongingness into political, social and economic arena because of being labelled as refugees.
Description:
This thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MA in English Language and Literature of East West University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
