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“No Place Called Home?”: Representations of Home in Chandani Lokugé's If the Moon Smiled and Roshi Fernando's Homesick

Abstract “Home is where the heart is”—even as we cling to this sentiment and are preoccupied with trying to unravel all the internalized dynamics, nuances, complexities of “home,” the terms “home” and “homeland” represent contested notions of belonging and exclusion. A desire to be at home, to belong to home and the longing for the mystic sense of home underscores much of diasporic writing. This essay interrogates and complicates the narrative of “being at home,” the narrative of “leaving home,” and the relationship between migration and identity and their attendant tensions in Sri Lankan migrant writers Chandani Lokugé's If the Moon Smiled and Roshi Fernando's Homesick.