Abdulrazak Gurnah

The contemporary world is witnessing a wide range of migration and transnationalization that inspires to make high-quality research on diasporas and their rootlessness, their culture and ethnicity. As global phenomena, scholars and researchers concentrate on the background of socio-economic-political circumstances that relate to either forced or voluntary migration. Wide in scope but pointed in analysis, the aim of this piece of work highlights the interrelated dimensions of diasporic movement with historical, political, and economic upbringings of homelands undergoing connectivity and limited explanatory power in host-land. Endeavour has been taken to add something significantly different in a scholarly market to realize the repercussion of colonialism and the psychic terrain of the migrants concerning their culture, religion, language, racism, and identity. A through and meticulous attempt has been made to understand a versatile, experimental, and the Nobel Prize Winner novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah who himself was a refugee and had left his place of origin, Zanzibar, at the age of 18 for colonial power and revolution. The discussion on collective memories of home and constructing notions of non-home must be helpful for future diasporas.