Remapping oceanic disaster: locating postcolonial haecceities in Sonali Deraniyagala’s Wave

Oceanic disaster is understood to be a form of ruination that impacts human and nonhuman beings alike. It is by working out oceanic disaster as an event, this article seeks to argue after Sonali Deraniyagala’s Wave that it is of profound importance to figure out the infusion of oceanic affects into the postcolonial consciousness of a survivor who has not just only witnessed the destructive strikes of Tsunami but also has understood co-becoming(s) of a Life through eventual fluxes of oceanic disaster. This article calls for reengaging with the continual ruination of oceanic disaster to spell out the nuanced workings of postcolonial haecceities in the context of Sonali Deraniyagala’s Wave.