ABSTRACT
In Sweden, a traditionally homogeneous country, "diaspora writers" and their work are now diversifying the country from within. Diaspora writings accentuate issues of the changing role of the nation-state, ideas of home and homeland, and thus the definition of diaspora itself. Writers need breaks for recharging while staying in the mood of the emerging text. In response to the explosion of the academic use of diaspora, Vertovec and Cohen, in their substantial review, identify four types of diaspora: diaspora as "social form," "consciousness," "mode of cultural production," and "political orientation." Writing about migrant writers from a literary point of view, Rebecca Walkowitz suggests that they "address their work to communities of various scales. "The relevant literature consists of a backdrop of literary studies of migrant and diaspora literature in Sweden, which, together with anthropological and sociological studies of diaspora, contribute to the debate over the concepts of "diaspora," "the diasporic," and "migration.".
