الفهرس 
Chapter One: Diaspora and Hybridity: Multiple Paradigms andOnly 14 pages are availabe for public view
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Abstract
Postcolonialism is a literary school which descends from postmodernism that
interrogates, argues, and destabilizes the fixity which thought to be never
disturbed before. In other words, postmodernism makes several dominant icons
fall by deconstructive and non adaptive dialectical thought. For instance,
imperialism and the traditional binary opposites which set fixed relationship
between colonizer and colonized, master and subaltern in the era of modernism
is turned upside down and defeated by postmodernism`s descendent postcolonialism
which investigates terms such as diaspora and hybridity in the Third
World or the ex colonized literary works of art.
This study does not examine, diaspora and hybridity as solid post- colonialist
terms, rather, they are set in multiple paradigms that I see more fitting, and
appropriate for the different significations which both terms contain. The first
chapter defines, explores, and investigates new paradigms of diaspora and
hybridity namely; nostalgic, and hybrid diaspora, tolerant and hegemonic
hybridity. In addition, the contemporary position of each paradigm at the world
stage is clearly surveyed. The following four chapters attempt to investigate
paradigms of diaspora and hybridity in four novels namely; A House for Mr
Biswas (1961) by V.S Naipaul (1932- ), White Teeth (2000) by Zadie Smith
(1975- ), Jasmine (1989) by Bharati Mukherjee (1940- ), and In the Eye of the
Sun (1993) by Ahdaf Soueif (1950- ). Then, the conclusion comes at the end to
round up the chapters involved in the thesis, and to compare the four narratives
with each other as well.
V.S Naipaul (Noble prize winner in 2001) is a Hindu- Trinidadian- English
writer. His great grandfather migrated from India (1880) to work as indentured
laborer in Trinidad`s sugar plantations. Naipaul`s father became a journalist and
that allowed him to educate his son in an English school where Naipaul won a Trinidadian government scholarship that allowed him to study in England where
Naipaul migrated later. In England, he wrote numerous fictional works such as
Miguel Street (1959), A House for Mr Biswas (1961), The Mimic Men(1967), In
a Free State (1971) which won Booker prize, A Bend in the River (1979), and
Magic Seeds (2004).
Zadie Smith is a Jamaican English writer, her mother is a Jamaican
immigrant who departed her home and got married to a British citizen (Smith`s
father). Smith completed her education in Cambridge where she wrote her first
novel White Teeth (2000) which was included in Time magazine as one of the
best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005. Smith, then wrote several
narratives such as The Autograph Man (2002), On Beauty (2005), and The
Embassy of Cambodia (2013).
Bharati Mukherjee is a Hindu-American novelist who was born in West
Bengal, India, she lived for some time there before migrating to the United
States where Mukherjee completed her education at the University of Iowa and
received her Ph.D in comparative literature. Mukherjee wrote many novels such
as The Tiger`s Daughter (1971), Jasmine (1989), Desirable Daughters (2002),
and Miss India (2011).
Ahdaf Soueif is an Egyptian-English writer who lived and educated in Cairo
before leaving to England where she completes her Ph.D. Soueif is a novelist,
and political and cultural commentator who wrote multiple fictional works of art
such as In the Eye of the Sun (1993), Map of Love (1999) which was shortlisted
for the Booker prize. She has also published two short stories namely; Aisha
(1983), and Sandpiper (1996).