Reflections of Hybridised Cum Global Facet of Identity Beyond the Colonial Discourse of Other

The main focus in this paper is the dynamic changes that keep on occurring in the identity formation. While encountering the colonial masters for their suppression and victimization of the colonized world as ‘other’, the flush of resisting power in the mind of the colonized leads to certain reclaiming of lost identity status. In this state of struggles, many additional changes also happen in the process. The perplexed discoveries related to colonial conspiracy against the Asian ethno-cultural legacy, as analysed by Edward Said, fully accelerated the scholarly class of suppressed societies. Their efforts paved the way for protest literature in Africa, India and in many other previously occupied nations. Rereading and reinterpreting of some colonial text in a deconstructive perspective proves physical and psychological enslaving of colonized done by colonizer, the intellectuals have interpreted the colonizer- colonized encounter as bilaterally affected. Manipulating some situated conditions like diaspora and globalization, they want to prove their pretentious goodwill for other world. The close contact of coloniser-colonised or master/slave binaries effaces the so-called essential differences amongst them. Therefore, the reclamations for the lost identity elevates the intensity of struggle for the determinations of global representations with the relevant identity. Bhabha provides new insight into the colonizer-colonized relationship by using the terms like 'hybridity,' 'mimicry,' to give a broader deconstructive prospect of culture as well as identity. No doubt, the right appropriation of deconstructive philosophy and other ideas by postcolonial scholars is a great success in the colonized world with the re-claiming of identity. Nonetheless, further research is required in the field of knowledge production and power structures of European empires, in order to secure a respectable and rightful place for the colonized in the global context.

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