Cultural Hybridity in Sadia Shepard’s The Girl From Foreign
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The novel Girl From Foreign by Sadia Shepard deals with the cultural hybridity of the characters. Migration, acculturation, transculturation, diaspora, in-betweenness factors plays the role cultural hybridity. Sadia Shepard presents her autobiography connected with her family history. The colonization and decolonization play the role of leaving the native and the foreign places. Diaspora, Identity crisis, rootlessness, make remain of native culture in foreign land. The both adaption of new culture and continuation of old brings the hybrid cultural identity in the novel which is called Third Space. Diaspora, acculturation, transculturation, identity crisis, third space, in-betweenness are seen because of colonization and decolonization. The novel presents the cultural issues of the characters. So, this project deals from the cultural criticism.
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