HYBRID IDENTITY AND THE SELECTED DIASPORIC WORK: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS

Abstract

The present study discusses the selected South Asian diasporic work in the relation to the notion of hybrid identity. Migrants leave homeland and join host land for better life and economic improvement. This shift from home to foreign land brings several obstacles among which crisis of identity is major one. Moreover, in host land diasporic community also faces segregation in terms of workplace environment and other social aspects of life and it further make them shattered and consequently this phenomenon leads them towards hybrid identity. This qualitative study employs theoretical concept of hybridity, a postcolonial concept, in the analysis of the selected text. The study concludes that diasporic community carry with it the burden of their native culture and the nostalgic memory and go through the crisis of identity in foreign land which make them hybrid. Keywords: Identity, hybridity, South Asian diaspora fiction, culture, homeland, host-land.