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The Hero's Walk Anita Roy Badami Analysis

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Chapter-2 A cross-cultural in “The hero’s walk” Anita Rau Badami. Anita Rau Badami was a writer of south Asia who settled in Canada. She was a writer of Indo- Canadian Diaspora. Her novel “The Hero’s walk (2001)” depicts the cross-cultural effect on Indian families in India and Canada. The immigrant female characters and Maya are in “The Hero’s walk.” Her novels handle with intricacies of Indian family life, cultural gap that was encountered by the immigrants who settle in the West. The hero’s walk describes the problems in the family life and at last how peace evolved in the family. In “The hero’s walk” Anita Rau Badami depicts expresses the emotional tensions that present in the south Asian diasporic as a diasporic text. The novels reflect Canadian culture and society. Narrate the Indian society and poverty-stricken communities, patriarchal set up, socio-religious rituals, colonial set up etc. Through their memory as well as their relatives, especially parents of both of them in India. Canadian culture was both a real hand …show more content…

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