Diasporic quagmire between defeatism and humanitarian transnationalism in Nada Awar Jarrar’s an unsafe haven

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Readdressing the old–new stock issue of diaspora is closely linked to postcolonialism.

many postcolonial writers who are born and write in metropolitan chalk out the postcolonial subject from the periphery to the center and back to decenter stoic representations that govern world schemes since long.

being a Lebanese Australian, Nada Awar Jarrar weaves in her post-war narrative, an unsafe haven (2016), a polyphonic tale made up of a multitude of diasporic experiences that stretch out from East to West.

this essay examines Jarrar's strategy of contrapuntal representation to define the predicament of diaspora, and evaluates Jarrar's appropriation of a transnational frame of postcolonialism through the trope of exiling Western characters into an Eastern background to make the postcolonial subject's emancipation possible and herald transnational patterns of synchronicity.