Hybridity and the Politics of Location
A Study of Diaspora Space in Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22238666 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sundus Javaid (National University of Modern Languages, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1115-1126 |
| Publication date | 2021-03-31 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Pakistan Social Sciences Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2664-0422 • E-ISSN: 2664-0430 |
| Publisher | Fatima Gohar Educational and Welfare Society (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.35484/pssr.2021(5-i)85 |
| OpenAlex | W3183642401 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 4 |
Diaspora, in Postcolonial context, refers to the notion of 'dispersion' which entails the connotations of a center or a locus from which the dispersion occurs. It takes into account the homing desire, which is not the same as the desire for 'homeland'. Hybridity, in conflation with diaspora studies, refers to dismantling cultures from their totalizing specificities of cultural situations. This cultural decolonization leads towards an ambivalent space called the 'Third Space of Enunciation'. The present study deals with Mohsin Hamid's "Exit West" (2017) as it attempts to reveal how colonial subjects are positioned not only in relation to the Colonizer but also in relation to one another. Hence, the colonial identity is always in a state of flux and anxiety due to multi-locationality, as the home is a slippery space in the diasporic imagination. Moreover, the study deals with Hamid's engagement with the arbitrariness of borders, as borders are discursive narratives, which further leads towards deterritorialization as dislocation and displacement of meanings and identities. Hamid, in the "Exit West", significantly maintains the ambivalence of diaspora space where binaries of exclusion/inclusion, belonging/otherness, us/them are contested in a global context
Diaspora · Hybridity · Linguistics · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Anthropology · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Middle East Politics and Society · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
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| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |