POSTCOLONIAL LONELINESS AS A LIFESTYLE (ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE PROSE COLLECTION “UNACCUSTOMED EARTH” BY J. LAHIRI)

Abstract

The most important part of the life of migrants in today’s world is a problem of loss of roots when forced to move from a country to another and their long, often rather difficult adaptation to new living conditions. The heroes of post-colonial works experience this migration in different ways: from a painful, sometimes torturous transformation of identity in the process of changing place of residence to an exciting self-discovery experiment. Postcolonial writers of Great Britain, India and the Caribbean countries paint a convincing picture of how migrants involuntarily destroy their well-established ideas about home, homeland and nationality, and thereby recreate the picture of the cosmopolitan status of the diaspora, primarily Indian, in the context of globalization.