The Problem of Hybridity, Dual Consciousness and Self-Identification in Lahiri’s Novel Namesake
The Problem of Hybridity, Dual Consciousness and Self-Identification in Lahiri’s Novel Namesake

Summary/Abstract: The present study explores the problem of the concepts of hybridity, dual consciousness, and, accordingly, self-identification and its multidimensional manifestations in Lahiri’s work Namesake. Notably, the writer delves deeply into the cultural encounters of diasporic and colonial subjects in his movement between the binary opposite of East and West. Based on the opinions of post-colonial researchers such as Yang, Baba, and others, hybridity and dual consciousness appear to be a prototype of the consequences of the experience of displacement and social exclusion. Consequently, Gogol’s problem is characteristic of the coexistence of the Eastern diaspora and colonised peoples with other Western peoples. This article concludes that hybridity, dual consciousness and the search for identity are fundamental concepts in post-colonial literature, representing a boundary model between the Western and non-Western worlds.

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