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POSTCOLONIAL MERGERDISSOLUTION OF IDENTITIES IN INBETWEEN SPACES A DIASPORA STUDY OF ONDAATJES THE ENGLISH PATIENT

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http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2018(III-IV).44      10.31703/gssr.2018(III-IV).44      Published : Dec 2018

Postcolonial Merger/Dissolution of Identities in In-Between Spaces: A Diaspora Study of Ondaatje's The English Patient

Abstract

    The epistemological shift from colonialism to postcolonialism refashioned the colonial conceptualization of gender, race, geopolitical locale and sexual orientation to focus on those processes theorized by Homi K. Bhabha as 'in-between spaces'. With the delimitation of Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient (1992), this research explores how these 'in-between spaces' led colonialism and its subjects to the postcolonial / post-World War II milieu. The colonizers were not psychologically resilient enough to survive the hybrid 'in-between space' that dismantled the binary of the self and the other. The post-colonial subject, like the colonial subject, is a collage, not stable or autonomous, because it exists in a hybrid space of the enunciation of two cultures which cannot sustain its independent identity: in The English Patient, the diaspora located at the cultural boundaries of the Europeans and their home countries merges and dissolves into the in-between spaces acquainted with their anxiety and passion of nationhood and the nationlessness.

    Diaspora, Identity, in-between Spaces, Post-Colonialism, World War II

    (1) Qasim Shafiq
    Ph.D. Scholar, Department of English, National University of Modern Languages, Islamabad, Pakistan.
    (2) Asim Aqeel
    Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Linguistics, University of Agriculture Faisalabad. Punjab, Pakistan.
    (3) Qamar Sumaira
    Lecturer in English, Department of English, Institute of Southern Punjab, Multan, Punjab, Pakistan.
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    TURABIAN : Shafiq, Qasim, Asim Aqeel, and Qamar Sumaira. "Postcolonial Merger/Dissolution of Identities in In-Between Spaces: A Diaspora Study of Ondaatje's The English Patient." Global Social Sciences Review III, no. IV (2018): 647-661. https://doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2018(III-IV).44