IDENTITY AT THE INTERFACE OF COLONIAL AND POSTCOLONIAL: A SHIFTING DIASPORIC PARADIGM IN HARI KUNZRU’S THE IMPRESSIONIST (2002)
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https://doi.org/10.29121/shodhkosh.v5.i1.2024.3407Keywords:
Identity, Shift, Culture, Colonial, PostcolonialAbstract [English]
The protagonist of Hari Kunzru’s novel The Impressionist (2002) goes through multiple identities experiencing intercultural and cross-cultural conflicts at a difficult trajectory of history. Being a mixed-race colonial subject Pran Nath’s identity is never stable and absolute as he steers towards a self-discovery at the interface of colonial and postcolonial. The constant process of identity formation makes him a bildungsroman hero pointing out a shift in the diasporic paradigm. In the increasingly global world, the diasporic subject has come a long way from a marginalized exile to a self-neutralized hero. This paper interrogates the essentialist model of distinctive diasporic culture in the host country and argues that individual identity formation endures a difficult process even in the unique original culture of Diaspora.
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