This book carefully locates Macintyre’s plays within the critical debates around postcolonial and diaspora theories and also within the particular diaspora history of Sri Lanka . Examining ” how displacement relates to homeland ” and to the socio – politics of the adoptive country , it appropriately keeps in mind specific differences of ethnicity , language and class , and traces the messages in Macintyre’s satirical plays for both Australian and Sri Lankan audiences . It is an important addition to the literary scholarship of both countries . Macintyre’s work deserves to be much better known and this book is a worthy means to achieve this .