The question of the ‘foreigners’ in select fictional narratives from Assam

In this age of metamorphosis cultural transition and assimilation, in where everyone one sense or the other is a migrant, issue identity can never be resolved. Iain Chambers (1994) holds that migrancy “calls for dwelling language, histories, identities are constantly subject to mutation” (p. 5). ‘Home’ sometimes becomes provisional location as it fails provide assurance security; hence, many instances, witnesses an individual’s desire break free, migrate. Memory narratives seen symbolic ways making homes, negotiating different competing allegiances. Jahnavi Barua’s novel, Undertow, Arupa Patangia Kalita’s novellas stories like ‘Face Mirror’, ‘The Half-burnt Bus at Midnight’, from Barak Valley Assam Moloy Kanti Dey’s ‘Ashraf Ali’s Homeland’, Amitabha Dev Choudhury’s ‘Wake Up Call’, Arijit ‘Fire’, among others, multiple perspectives on question identity. The paper seeks delve into select fictional analyse ‘foreigners’, keeping mind current discourses migration, especially illegal Bangladeshi migrants.