DISPLACEMENT AND FRACTURED IDENTITY IN BRICK LANE

<p>Every post-colonial community<br>struggles with the issue of identity, it would<br>not be exaggeration to say that this is the<br>most controversial and important topic to<br>come out of the post-colonial age and<br>literature. The crisis came to the surface due<br>to the circumstances of the post-colonial<br>age and the challenging situations that<br>challenge newly emancipated nations and<br>countries in their search for and<br>construction of self-identity. The issue of<br>identity is not a clear and fixed concept as it<br>may be imagined. The Oxford English<br>Dictionary defines "identity" as the fact of<br>being who or what a person or thing is.<br>However, in a postcolonial environment,<br>identity is a complicated term that is<br>difficult to define. As one can see, the<br>identity of an individual, a group or a nation<br>in postcolonial terms is linked to the 'other'<br>which means they recognize themselves as<br>'us' in the presence of the 'other'(web).</p>