A House for Mr. Biswas

Examine a house for mr. Biswas as a diasporic novel.

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A House for Mr. Biswas is often referred as a novel diasporic in nature. When colonialism started, Indians were transported from their homelands to different countries in order to serve as laborers. They settled in those countries but the memory of their homeland kept on haunting them. Mohun Biswas, is an Indian born in rural Trinidad and is pronounced unlucky by the pundit at his birth due to the presence of six fingers and because he was born in the wrong way. Mohun goes through a series of life changes as his father dies and his family moves away. There is a longing in Biswas for his homeland or at least the social and emptional constructs fore his homeland.