Authors : Soheila Arabian and Vida Rahiminezhad
Abstract: The present study is an attempt to study M.H. Naqvi’s Home Boy through the lens of Homi K. Bhabha’s concepts like ‘hybridity’, ‘third space’, ‘ambivalence’ and mimicry. Bhabha challenges Western colonial discourse in order to put an end to the idea of world’s division into ‘Self’ and ‘Other’. He presents the idea of cross-cultural interactions of immigrant and diasporic subjects and indicates on ‘impurity’ and ‘mixed-ness’ of cultures. This study which is a qualitative library-based research, aims to analyze M.H. Naqvi’s Home Boy, based on Bhabha’s aforementioned concepts in order to shed some light on cross-cultural issues. This study tries to analyze the hybrid situation of Pakistani characters in America in order to find the ways they interact in the ‘third space of enunciation’ and the way they imitate American lifestyle. It presents the change through the very fabric identity of these three Pakistani characters which leads them to the process of self-invention in order to reach a kind of consciousness within their lives.
Soheila Arabian and Vida Rahiminezhad, 2016. Cross Cultural Identity: Locating Hybridity and Ambivalence in Naqvi’s Home Boy. The Social Sciences, 11: 3049-3053.