CONSTRUCTING DIASPORIC IDENTITY: A COMPARATIVE CRITIQUE OF SELECT DIASPORIC WOMENS FICTION

Abstract

Diaspora studies has emerged as a natural extension of the postcolonial newlinetheories of the Most of the early postcolonial theories have newlinebeen based on the notions of resistance on the struggle of the colonized to newlinepreserve or revitalize their indigenous culture in the face of imperial newlinehegemony So postcolonial studies incorporates discourses of colonial newlineoppression and native resistance Since the colonial past lingers as a newlinehistorical burden on the former colonial subjects newline