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Diasporic exposure and cultural deviance : a comparative reading of Philip Roth and V. S. Naipaul
(2019) Abedi Moghadam, Mona
Mass migrations of modern times have produced hybrid identities that reside neither within the realm of the former national or ethnic culture nor within the cultural realm of the host society. Possessor of such an identity is often criticized by both sides for being a transgressor, a deviant, while both sides neglect the interactive procedure, at the end of which this cultural wretch stands, a Frankensteinian prototype whose existence cannot be categorized in any of the cultural groups which actually created it. This creature is a diasporic subject, a hybrid in possession of a ´partial´ presence , residing in Bhabha´s terms at the rim of an ´in-between´ reality ( Locations of Culture 13). Drawing on the notions of home, mimicry and its existential counterpart impersonation and eventually deviance, the present study examines the tension of residing in that in-between state. This study also delineates social implications of diaspora such as cultural deviance. For this purpose, the author compares three novels by Philip Roth, the Jewish American writer, to two novels and a collection (including short stories and a novella) by V. S. Naipaul, the Trinidadian English writer. Each chapter draws attention to one common or correlating notion as a space where identity dynamics and identity conflicts are negotiated.