ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines the literary history of Sikh writers of the diaspora and examines how the global migration of Sikhs from India to other parts of the world also created the need for Sikhs to have their concerns addressed through creative works. Reviewing the common themes entailed in migration as dislocation, homelessness, and discriminatory sense of estrangement, this article illustrates how the diverse challenges of identities faced by writers of the Sikh diaspora have contributed to building an emerging canon of Sikh formations and identities. From the earlier decades of the twentieth century to the contemporary times, Sikh writers across generations have effectively addressed their affirmatory self-representation and traced the challenges of anti-Sikh prejudice in their new homelands. Through poetry, fiction, nonfiction, drama, graphic narratives, and children’s and young adult literature, these writers have favorably created affirmative spaces of belonging in their works.
