HYBRID IDENTITIES IN AKHTAR’S “HOMELAND ELEGIES”: AS A PERSPECTIVE OF STUART HALL

Abstract

This study explores the concept of Hybrid Identities at the crossroads of cultural affinities as depicted in the works of Ayad Akhtar’s Homeland Elegies. The research focuses on the complexities of identity through a hybrid conceptual lens. Akhtar has highlighted to determine the identity of characters through political, racial, cultural and national factors. The trauma of cultural loss and identity, imitation, hybridity, diasporic culture, religious affiliations, problems in post-9/11 America, and pains of homelessness are all explored in Akhtar’s Homeland Elegies. The political, ethnic, racial, national, cultural, and religious elements that contribute to the characters’ identities in Homeland Elegies are examined in this study. The study focuses on how identities are formed and how characters fluctuate between letting go of old identities and assuming new ones. The aim of the current study is to examine how numerous identities develop across a variety of cultural contexts. The literary pieces have been examined within the parameters of postcolonial theory. The settings and personalities discussed in this study are elaborated using Stuart Hall’s idea of identity. The settings and characters of the novels under consideration are elaborated in the current study using Stuart Hall’s idea of identity. In Hall’s view of identity, the ambiguity and troubling ramifications of the modern day exist. The second method links the idea of diversity with identity, showing how identity changes over time. Such an approach, as Hall notes, is dynamic and ever-evolving. The study focuses on how people construct their identities and how migration creates situations where cultural disputes occur and resurface under different circumstances.