Analyse A House for Mr. Biswas as a diasporic allegory.

In the barracks, also known as coolie lines, both because the labourers lived in them and they were lines of thirty or forty rooms constructed back to back, each family was alloted a room with no place for cooking, no bathrooms or toilets. To quote from “Tota’s Tale” a poem by Satendra Nandan, a Fijian Indian poet, critic and statesman now living in Australia:

An empty line of twenty-four rooms :
I Eight feet by twelve feet.
Once it housed native workers
Eight died : others fled
Who would live among the dead?
Homeless I had come in search of paradise
This house of hell was now all mine.
! (Nandan, Lines Across Black Waters, 1 1 – 1 2)

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