RELOCATING HOME IN DIASPORIC IMAGINATION: TRANSLATING DIASPORIC DESIRE

Abstract

The idea of ‘home’ is an eluding concept in the history of human civilization which is imbued with meaning in the subjective imagination of the individual. It is intrinsically and inevitably associated with the practices of exclusion and inclusion operating in an individualistic space of psychic investment under given circumstances. The homeless dialectics of the postmodern diasporic world triggers a sense of ‘homing desire’ in the people displaced from their native land of identification in a range of differential and discursive possibilities. The diasporic subjects thus feel a constant urge to reconstruct their own image of the homeland creating an imaginative space for themselves reconfiguring the inner landscapes of their mind.  The paper thus aims at exploring and relocating ‘home’ in diasporic imagination translating diasporic desire with its multiple and conflicting cultural identities that defies strict premise and connotation in the problematic dialectics of permeable patterns of cultural representation.