Cultural Identity And Diaspora Summary

The art of storytelling is moving far beyond boundaries and pre-conceived limitations that enables the storyteller to change the way that the story is told. Telling a story is being capable of drawing the readers in, grabbing their uttermost attention, perplexing them with the complexities of the story and at the end, connecting with the reader. The author, Junot Diaz implements these elements in his engrossing novel The Brief Wondrous life of Oscar Wao (2007). This book is captivating in the way that it integrates crucial elements such as culture, identity, self recognition and how historical pasts constructs the lives of Caribbean peoples. It is a mixture of present and past instances which share the lives and experiences of the characters. The novel is concerned about the blank pages of history — history that has been obscured and the way that the narrator unveils the past. It expresses the hybridity that presents itself in the text and how that hybridity entails a history that is outside of the peripheries. Similarly to what Stuart Hall, a cultural theorist wrote in his journal “Cultural Identity and Diaspora” (2003), this novel follows on the path of Hall’s by identifying the diasporic elements of identities and that by exploring identities the fact that it is a story of multiplicity and is abnormal to a particular ontology must …show more content…
Stuart Hall’s journal, “Cultural Identity and Diaspora” written about the evolving concepts of identity, the challenges pertaining to identities and how the notions of identities having this movable aspect is generated by the blank pages of the history of a particular group of people. Hall states the different positions to think of identity with regard to the cultural identity of caribbean peoples, by asserting