Postcolonial Narratives and Identity Formation in Contemporary Literature

Abstract

The postcolonial discourses are relevant with regard to determining the subject matter and identity of individuals and groups following colonialism. These narratives offer a critical insight through which the identity formations processes within the post-colonial societies could be assessed. In the present paper, the impact of postcolonial discourse as it has shaped identities in modern literature will be taken by the way the postcolonial writers are addressing the issues of cultural hybridity, displacement and resistance as tropes in their work. The investigation approaches the issue of the burden and heritage of colonialism and the contribution it made to the formation of an identitary construction not only of the individuals and but the nations as entirety shaping their course towards the problem in the cultural collage integration joining and merging their various cultural contributions, and through the stage of fading in the local tradition and the ability to understand the modern world. Having reviewed the articles of other authors Salman Rushdie. This paper employs them to get some insights on how identity is multifaceted in postcolonial literature and how it continues to be topical in the current society. In addition, the significance of several narrative elements such as oral narrative recounting, realism, historical revisionism in developing postcolonial subjects is also contained in the study. Provision of knowledge on correlation between literature and identity, the study blacks is helpful in providing an insight, on how the narratives have continued to shape in the current realignment of identity and belonmagical ging.