Diasporic Diversions In Michael Ondaatjes’s Anil’s Ghost And The English Patient

Abstract

One of Canada's most well-known living authors, Michael Ondaatje has won numerous literary honours including the Governor General's Award and the Giller Prize. This article seeks to portray a comparative study of diasporic diversion through Michael Ondaatje's fictional characters. It looks at the character Anil Tissara, who was born in Sri Lanka but travelled abroad to pursue higher education on a scholarship, as a result of  the immigration of an individual for the academic purpose she went abroad once her dreams come true one must return to their homeland which resulted in academic diversion. There, she runs into a number of issues, includes cultural diversion, professional diversion and also it concentrates on inequality and quest for identity.  The character of Almasy, who lost his identity in a plane crash, particularly in a desert, is used by the author to deftly illustrate the identical diversion and geographical diversion through the immigrant identity in The English Patient. Disaporic Literature emphasises emotion in addition to focusing on estrangement, displacement, homelessness, dislocation, and scattering. Hana, a young Canadian nurse caring for her English patient at the time the European War ended, does an unbelievable job of portraying it in her story; Michael Ondaatje depicted the professional diversion through the character Hana in the novel The English Patient.