Identity Crisis In The Lonely Londoners

4. Review of Identity Crisis in the Lonely Londoners

The Lonely Londoners novel presents some identity crisis who employs a various approach to surviving as immigrants and in the process of doing so they establish a risky hold on the London life. A refrain that reappear throughout the novel turns on the perseverance that the old identities that the immigrants brought with them to London. The old identity of Cap is characterized by the use of fashion style from either Spain or Kingston, lack of cooperation, untransformed. Cap also use her fashion style to disappear in moments when he does not want to be noticed.Harris have a character that are contrary to those of Cap. Harris is an early model of what Naipaul defines as a mimic man; he is obsessed

The colonial takes into himself the colonizing image and merges it with his Africanism or Indianism and becomes something new and different—a hybrid creature that subverts the colonial project. As he puts it in one essay, ‘I have tried . . . to rename the postmodern from the position of the postcolonial. Bhabha’s work on contemporary culture valorizes the hybridity of migrant and diaspora culture within what is conceived as the homogeneous space and time of the nation. Bhabha’s employs the technic of building on the diaspora traditions and culture practices to try and break the economic and social barriers that have existed for generations. Our discussion here will focus on the implications of this approach for thinking migrants, diaspora and the nation. Bhabha understands the predicament of the new multi-ethnic and multi-cultural society of postwar Britain within the framework of ‘the nation as narration' developed in the time of the narrative. Here, the current state is interpreted as the strategy that has the claim of the construction of new together with the long known events. The understanding of any nation's narrative is achieved together with the suppression of the differences in culture and identification. Nevertheless, Bhabha claims that normalizing act of history introduces a provisionally variable of any give society that make it superior to other traditions [6] (Bhabha, 1994, pp.