ANALYZING CULTURAL HYBRIDITY IN HOME FIRE: A POST-COLONIAL PERSPECTIVE

Abstract

Cultural hybridity is an integral part of migrants’ lives who cross borders and as a result they follow new routes, side by side they connect with their roots. When people migrated due to different reasons, these people also face exploitation and biased behavior of their masters or dominant nations. With the passage of time they stand for their right and succeed somehow in achieving them. In this research work Homi Bhabha’s cultural hybridity is examined. Which is present in his book The Location of Culture. In this selected work two Muslim families migrated to Britain. And in U.S their new generation face problem of identity, home, and cultural hybridity. In diaspora people face different types of problems when they settle into a new country. In new country these people and the new generation would not welcome in positive way they considered them as outsiders and because living in foreign country when they go back to their home country their own people also not enthusiastic towards them due to cultural mixing of that specific foreign country. These people often marginalized and face so many problems in consequence. Aneeka is portray as modern and culturally hybrid character who also considered other in Britain and in Pakistan as well. It is realized when she was struggling for her dead brother, she wanted him to get back home. In this study cultural hybridity stance of Homi Bhabha and the concept of Can the Subaltern Speak? By Gayatri Spivak is applied as theoretical lens. The qualitative approach is used in this research, in which text is analyzed deeply to dig out the concepts of cultural hybridity, home, border, and mimicry in the work Home Fire. Keywords: Cultural hybridity, Home, Border, Identity, Mimicry, Diaspora.