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Reclamation of root in the original homeland and culture is integral to diasporic consciousness. Diasporas reclaim original identity through ‘material’ and ‘cultural’ links. On the one hand, they take up activities of ‘maintenance and restoration’ of the homeland as agents of development; on the other hand, psychically through memory, vision and myth and linguistically through historical research and literary production, they continue to have attachment to the homeland. The Sri Lankan-Canadian diasporic writer Michael Ondaatje holds a complex cultural position since he considers himself as a ‘mongrel of place, race, culture and genres’. In his fictional memoir ‘Running in the Family’, his diasporic consciousness is depicted in the very act of reconstruction of family history. His memoir can be viewed as his attempt to come to terms with a past that is both personal and collective. He reframes his family ‘history’, and his historiography involves looking back at the three centuries old history and creative reworking of the changes over the times. This paper is an attempt to explore Ondaatje’s diasporic consciousness as depicted in his reconstruction of family history in his memoir ‘Running in the Family.

Reclaiming Root and Reframing History: Diasporic Consciousness in Michael Ondaatje’s Running in the Family