A STUDY OF PRESERVING CULTURE THROUGH LANGUAGE: NEGOTIATING TRADITION, MEMORY AND IDENTITY
Keywords:
Culture, Memory, Tradition, Diaspora, ResistanceAbstract
Language serves as a communicative system and a source of collective memory. It also functions as a repository of cultural traditions as well as a marker of identity. This research paper explores how linguistic practices carry and thrash out cultural continuity across generations particularly in the post-colonial era. The study, by drawing upon theoretical perspectives from post-colonial theory, examines the interrelationship between language, memory and identity as dynamic process that shapes cultural resistance. By analyzing the selected literary text, this paper argues that language serves as both a site of resistance and adaptation. The study concludes that preserving language means the preservation of culture, history and identity.
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