Negotiating Identity in Postcolonial Space A critical study of Selected South Asian Diasporic Fiction

Abstract

Delineating identity is a very complex phenomenon because identity has many factors newlinecontributing to its development that differ from scenario to scenario. Identities are part of newlinehistory in which they evolve and are subject to constant change and transformation. newlineTherefore, phenomenon of identity, an enigma till now, has become more enigmatic due newlineto the emergence of postcolonial space, because of the blending in of different identities newlinein it. Postcolonial space created after wide-ranging resistance with intellectual and newlinediplomatic dexterity is intended to exploit the myth that dissenting voices can never be newlineabsolutely silenced. However, the paradox that lies amid the postcolonial space is that newlinechaos perpetuates order. For that reason, this thesis is an attempt to illuminate that all newlinenoticeable instabilities cannot be identified underneath the heading of chaos as newlinesometimes the assumption of certain negative terms may be used as much in the facility newlineof backing up to remove whatever is made obligatory. There are some postcolonial newlinediasporic writers who describe postcolonial spatial scenario and show how the canon of newlineSouth Asian English Literature has flourished itself to some definite expectations by newlineforging a counter-Orientalist discourse. Brick Lane by Monica Ali, Queen of Dreams by newlineChitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai, The Reluctant newlineFundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid and Home Boy by H.M. Naqvi are novels that are newlinedrenched with issues regarding the notion of identity in postcolonial space particularly in newlinethe diasporic contexts. These authors in their respective novels traverse into the new newlinesuburban to negotiate identity of the different characters and expose the dilemmas they newlinego through. newline