FLUID IDENTITIES IN THE HYBRID SOCIETY: A POST COLONIAL STUDY OF SHAMSI’S BURNT SHADOWS
Keywords:
Cultural Hybridity, Diaspora, Feminist Representation, Fluid Identities, Postcolonial Identity, Transnationalism, Trauma and MemoryAbstract
Transnational multicultural kaleidoscope depicts the assimilations and diversity of Pakistani American and Asian societies in Brunt shadows by Kamila Shamsi. It is a journey from independence to migration, cultural assimilation to polarization, identity loss, crises, formation of identity fluid self’s and emotional psychological traumatic consequences. Quantitative and qualitative method has been used to analyze the cultural diversity of Asian and American society. The post-colonial feministic representation of females in Asian and western societies have proved that women suffer in each society marginalization. qualitative analysis proved that colonial mindset social and political cosmopolitan changes rupture the stability of identity and moved them towards fluid identities. The findings are valid enough to provide a tapestry of traumatic experiences because of geographical social cultural global transitions paving a way for ups and downs of poor victims and shifting their identities to fluid identities in a hybrid society
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