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Mrs de winter by susan hill6/11/2023 Within this remit, close reading of selected dance, culinary practices and visual materials will illustrate the trajectory of my research. Here I also seek to demonstrate a broad overview of the intervention my research eff ects within scholarship on the Gujarati diaspora, their narratives of belonging and, as Parminder Bhachu describes, discourses on the ‘twice migrant’. Given the trauma of departing from multiple homelands and relocating in a sometimes racist host nation, this article explicates how both individuated and collective identity are formed and reformed. My research, grounded in literary studies, excavates the cultural impact of these painful deracinations, which were forced in Uganda, and less coerced in Kenya. Many members of this community, who were indeed also Gujaratis, migrated to Britain. August 2012 saw the fortieth anniversary of the South Asian population’s expulsion from Uganda, by Idi Amin.
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