Multiple Dislocations, Temporality, Cricket As A Root’s Thing In Romesh Gunesekera’s Diasporic Novel The Match

Abstract

Diasporic literature encompasses stories about those who disperse or scatter away from their homeland. Diaspora is simply the displacement of a community/culture into another geographical and cultural region. Such movements were common during colonialism. Such diasporic movements developed their own distinctive cultures which preserved, extended, and developed their ‘original’ cultures. Diaspora culture is the effect of migration, immigration, and exile (Nayar 187). Immigrants undergo displacement in their lives both geographically as well as culturally. Diaspora literature talks about the stories of these individuals who are portrayed as the victim of multiple dislocations. The word ‘multiple’ means ‘collective.’ The word ‘dislocation’ means ‘displaced.’ It also throws light on the complexity of identity, the hybrid and hyphenated identities as well as the difficulty in finding a sense of belonging. An individual who is a victim of multiple dislocation is always an “outsider” in his host country (Sukumary 921).