How Cultural or biological hybridity influences someone's national identity.

1. Hybridity and National Identity in
Post Colonial World.
Name Ramiz Solanki
Semester 03
Paper no 11 (Post Colonial Literature)
Enrollment No 2069108420180051
Roll no 27
Submitted to S.B Gardi Department of
English MKBU

2. Hybridity and National Identity
• Hybridity: In its most basic sense it refers to
the Mixture
• Something that is mixture of two very
different things.
• National identity: It is a person's identity or
sense of belonging to one state or to
one nation.

3. Cultural Hybridity
• It is the mixture of two cultures, and
emergence of the new culture.
• It is the trans cultural forms within the contact
zone produced by colonization.
• According Homi K. Bhabha, (in his work ‘The
Location of Culture’ {1994}) all cultural
statements and systems are constructed in a
‘Third Space’ of enunciation.

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• Food, Countries and languages are the
elements of cultural hybridization.

5. Hybridity of Two Person from Different Religions
as well as Cultures.
• It is the mixture of two races. i.e. Indian
Woman and European Man.

6. National Identity
• National identity: is a person's identity or sense
of belonging to one state or to one nation.
• It is the sense of a nation as a cohesive whole, as
represented by distinctive traditions, culture,
language and politics.
• It is very much connected as well as influenced by
the Politics and power.
• Identity is the representation of religion, region,
culture.

7. Hybridization and Identity
• Hybridization always effects the identity of
particular person or culture.
• Rushdie reputedly addresses identity issues
that have bearing on his own life.
• “I too have ropes around my neck, I have than
to this day, pulling me this way and that, East
and West” (Salman Rushdie).

8. • Namesake is the best example of problem
that can be arouse from the hybridization of
two different cultures.

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