TRAUMA, TERROR AND THE MODERN DAY DIASPORA: DECODING THE (CON)TEXT OF LOSS IN MUNAWEERA’S FICTION
TRAUMA, TERROR AND THE MODERN DAY DIASPORA: DECODING THE (CON)TEXT OF LOSS IN MUNAWEERA’S FICTION

Summary/Abstract: The experiences of diaspora have been interlinked through common themes and tropes, while yet being significantly varied, based on factors as diverse as the reasons for diaspora, to the home left behind and the home that the diasporic has moved to, as also the timeline of the diaspora. This has made diasporic writing both endearing and enduring, as it has and will remain a significant reality of the human condition. An emerging writer, in this area, is Nayomi Munaweera, who has written two novels between 2013 and 2016. Her novels become significant as embodiments of extremely diverse experiences and expressions of trauma and the resultant feeling of loss set against the backdrop of the civil war that Sri Lanka experienced in the closing decades of the twentieth century, while not remaining restricted to it. This paper explores the manner in which this expression makes Munaweera’s writing stand apart, while yet placing it firmly within the extant body of diasporic fiction

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