Homi K. Bhabha

In both Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” and Ursula Le Guin’s, “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”, there is a town in which a person is sacrificed in one way or another in order for the entire community to thrive. These sacrifices are rituals which only these towns know about. “The Lottery” focuses more on an actual ritual where the town draws papers from a box and one person ends up getting stoned in order for the crops of that year to thrive. “The Ones Who Walk Away” from Omelas is a story…

this aspect of A Passage to India but, there remain broader aspects of this novel that are yet to be explored, hoping that one such explorer finds the answer in his quest of reality through this article. References Bhabha, Homi. 2001. ‘Of Mimicry and Man: The Ambivalence of Colonial Discourse’, in Modern Literary Theory, ed. by Philip Rice and Patricia Waugh. USA: Hodder Arnold. Childs, Peter. (ed.)1999. Post-Colonial Theory and English Literature: A Reader.…

Bhabha was coin the term ‘hybridity’ in a view that many writers have a sense of belonging to two cultures. This interaction of the two separate cultures are lead to the further conflicts that is clashes between the two, but it certainly opens a new routes and modes of thinking for the individual identity and group identities of the diaspora and guides them to outgrow the stereotyped experiences of being uprooted, displacement and marginalization. Bhabha argues in his critical…

flushes out colonial enslavement from the consciousness of the colonised, and in turn re-establishes dignity to the exploited. Therefore, second wave scholarship offers a forceful critique of the ‘ambivalence’ based resistance of critics such as Bhabha, as they interpret it as the dismissal of the Fanonian coloniser/colonised binary and subsequent promotion of literary forms of authority that essentially diffuse the historical resistance within colonisation. Second wave critics such as Benita…

The ethnic root of nationalism felt into the schema of ethnic and nationalism study, particularly since the 1970s. The resurgence of ethnic nationalism has been an intrinsic socio-political reality in many parts of the world since 70s till date. Scholars from ethnic and nationalism studies widely acknowledged that ethnicity occupy a crucial role in nationalism. However, there are few detailed studies that focus on the relationship between ethnicity, nation and nationalism. Walker Connor and…

Research Proposal Exploring the impact of displacement on identity in Jhumpa lahiri’s fiction; a postcolonial perspective Muqadsa Bashir MPhil English Literature Supervisor: Shamshad Rasool Department of English, University of Gujrat Table of Contents 1. Introduction……………………………………………… a. Introduction to the…

This thesis attempts to apply postcolonial studies on the case of Korean Chinese who are doubly dislocated and otherized, as I argue. It examines the identity of Korean Chinese as Korean ethnic minority in China and also ethnic return migrants in South Korea expressed in the literature. It explores the factors that trigger the identity crisis of Korean Chinese and constantly causing them to search for a new home. In doing so, two works written by a second-generation of Korean Chinese novelist…

postcolonial theory incorporate The Wretched of the Earth (1961) by Franz Fanon, Orientalism (1978) by Edward Said, In Other Worlds (1987) by Gayatri Spivak, The Empire Writes Back (1989) by Bill Ashcroft et al, Nation and Narration (1990) by Homi K Bhabha, and Culture and Imperialism (1993) by Edward…

Introduction Identity and Culture are two mated phrases. Culture is an effective entity that plays an important role in carving one’s identity. The identity can be a fixed identity or a hybrid identity. The objective of this dissertation is to examine the way colonialism impacted the psyche of orients which resulted in the hybrid identity of the colonized people and their culture. Derek Walcott, Amitav Ghosh, Ngugi wa Thiongo, Tayeb Salih, Chinua Achebe etc, these all are the important…

The animals in a farm named Manor Farm attempt to assert their Otherness in contrast to the oppressive human interference through a Rebellion. The word Rebellion appears with a capital ‘R’, as if the animals have almost found their harmony with deifying the act of Othering. The capitalized ‘Rebellion’ seems a raw simulation of the anthropocentric deity-figure that appears in grand narratives of the religious kind. The Rebellion of Manor Farm turns bloody and resembles in all its subtlety the…