The Question of Cultural Hybridity and Shifting Identities in Adib Khan’s Spiral Road

Authors

  • Dr. Shikha Thakur,Chetna Negi,

Abstract

The Postcolonial migrant literature being a discourse beyond boundaries blurs and transcends borders. In this situation, the roles of the outside and that of the inside switch simultaneously. The outsider in a host country at times becomes an insider and vice versa. The day- to- day experiences, emotional attachments and the exposure to the known and the unknown, result into new formations, which point to the heterogeneity of a location. Postcolonial migration is often accompanied by cultural identity crisis, as most immigrants after leaving their mother land, struggle to start afresh, amid an alien culture in an unfamiliar country. Many a times they have to face the resistance of the natives who consider them as outsiders and unwanted guests in their country. Often, these migrants land up in a situation where they are unable to identify completely either with their native culture or with the culture of their adopted nation. This is the root cause from where cultural identity crisis stems. The present paper aims at probing deep into the realms of cultural hybridity and exposing the cultural identity crisis of the protagonist in the novel Spiral Road penned down by Adib Khan, a famous South Asian novelist

Published

2021-08-11

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