Memory, Nostalgia, and Hybrid Identity Formation in the Novel: A Bhabhaian Analysis

Abstract

This research study examine Homi Bhabha’s concept of hybridity which highlight hybrid identity formation. Homi Bhabha define the role of Memory, nostalgia, and negotiation that is rebuilds their identities in a postcolonial context. Emotional attachment focus in the past history that how cultural displacement and historical rupture construct a design. The study uses a descriptive approach in which novel texts are analyzed to identify themes, which are important in society, and to understand meaning, feelings, and ideas. Looking closely at the story, the words, the secret language, and the characters grow. Hybrid identities rise through self and the other concept that is a continuous process of interaction between the past and the present. The findings indicate tradition and modernity. Cultural dislocation, and memory play a role of bridge between lived experience and historical awareness and nostalgia reflects emotional longing. In this regard, nostalgia makes uncertainty and simultaneously weakens of identity. The study indicate the role of hybridity in the novel, which signifies a fluid, and self-motivated. The route of identity formation was postcolonial literary discourse.