Voluntary Migration and Psychological Resistance: Exploring Diaspora and Jewish Identity in Philip Roth’s Indignation

Philip Roth, a renowned literary figure of the United States is a third-generation Jew immigrant settled at Newark, New Jersey to share a special affinity to the place where he grew up and evidently proved his connection by elucidating the presence of Newark as an indispensable backdrop pervasively in his novels. Being a third generational Jew in the land where Christianity reined its stronghold, we bserve
that the author who tries to establish a cultural aspect of Jews despite practiced Atheism, perhaps to showcase his social responsibility against the bias that was showered during his stay at Newark which
has largely influenced his novels and is articulated effectively through blurring the boundaries of Fiction
and Non-Fiction. It shall be noted that the elements of Diaspora can be identified prominently in the Novel Indignation, one of the books from the collection, Nemeses, where the young protagonist of nineteen, Marcus faces discomfort in multiple facets for being displaced in a different state Ohio, at Wines burg College to carry out his higher studies. The incidents that unfold in the college premises of Marcus and his encounter with the rigid norms of the institution narrates to substantiate the application
of the elements of Diaspora in the novel mentioned. The Modern Viewpoint of Diaspora emphasizes basically the habitual voluntary settlement in a foreign land for different purposes, yet the convincible degree of stability and connectivity will always remain an interrogative space for the immigrants to get it answered. In view of the aforementioned details, this paper attempts to deconstruct the features of Diaspora through the intrigue and the corresponding situations represented in the novel Indignation by Roth.