Identity Crisis Select Novels Of Salman Rushdie

IDENTITY CRISIS IN SELECT NOVELS OF SALMAN RUSHDIE The question of identity is the most controversial issue in postcolonial time and literature and it can be regarded the most important because of its crisis exist in all postcolonial communities. Due to the circumstances of post colonial era and the problematic conditions that faced newly freed nations and countries in their search and formation of self identity the crisis floated on the surface. In the following of World War II, the act of decolonization and libration of nations under colonial rule provoked a noteworthy move in the direction of recreating social and individual identities. The period also marked by the struggle of decolonization in all the levels of life, culture,†¦show more content†¦Since the identity is not a stable and fixed notion as Hall confirms ―Identity emerges as a kind of unsettled space or an unresolved question in that space, between a number of intersecting discourses and the impact of c olonial legacy was multi dimensional besides there was a different consequences of colonialism in different locations, the issue of identity appeared in different shapes and forms. Collective and individual identities also differ physically and psychologically. The resistance of decolonization process took various outlines due to countries, societies and individuals. Therefore, identity is not simply imposed. It is also chosen, and actively used, albeit within particular social contexts and constraints. Against dominant representations of others there is resistance. Within structures of dominance, there is agency. Identity crisis is the major suffering of the many people in the present day world. It is quite natural every one thinks of their own identity to grow themselves with self respect. Afro-American, British and Indian every writer nowadays focused their writings keeping in the mind the sense of identity. There is no exception to the writer like Salman Rushdie. His novels also reflect the question of identity and explore the philosophical significance of ideals and concepts.