அ.முத்துலிங்கம் சிறுகதைகளில் அயலகப் பண்பாடுகள் / Diasporic Culture in A.Muthulingam’s Short Stories

Abstract

Culture is a term associated with people, their tradition and related ideologies. Culture generally refers to the activity and organization that show the privileges and importance to cultural and traditional symbols of a society. Diasporic related cultural conflict are creating identity crisis in the lives of the settlers in the foreign countries for jobs and as refugees. Tamil people have settled as diasporas in many foreign countries. The article is planned to cull down the history, tendencies, characteristics, insights, ways of life, social structures of Tamil people settled in abroad found in the stories of the tamil writer A.Muthulingam. This crisis also includes language, food, music, religious beliefs, professions and tools too in the life of the migrated people. Hence, this article is entitled as “Diasporic Culture in A.Muthulingam’s Short Stories” to bring out the aforesaid themes from his stories.

Keywords

• diasporic culture
• a.muthulingam
• short stories