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Abstract
This thesis tackles cultural hybridity and discusses some problems that immigrant women face in the West. It is a postcolonial reading of three plays of Southeast Asia: Han Ong’s Swoony Planet (1993), Alice Tuan’s Last of The Suns (1994) and Haresh Sharma’s Rosnah (1994).
This thesis is divided into five chapters preceded by an introduction and followed by a conclusion and a list of works cited. Chapter one traces the theoretical framework of the study and discusses the identity formation of the hybrid figure, how a society reacts to the cultural hybrid, how the cultural hybrid responds and his/ her desperate endeavors to belong. It also tackles some difficulties the female immigrants face in the West. Chapter two traces the four types of hybrids in Han Ong’s Swoony Planet. It also traces the confrontation between the different immigrant generations. Chapter three traces the hybrid figure in Alice Tuan’s Last of the Suns. It also discusses how Tuan uses myth as a means of resistance to the Western lifestyle. Chapter four discusses the hybrid figure in Haresh Sharma’s Rosnah. It traces the two characters of Rosnah and Muslinda and how Sharma deconstructs the idea that a person can be a representative of his/her culture abroad. It also traces using Singlish as a sign for the multiculturalism of the Singaporean society. Chapter five tackles some difficulties that the immigrant women face in the West such as harassment as a sign of oppressing the female body, the patriarchal society as the obstacle that hinders women’s self-realization and the mother-daughter relationship as an important factor in female identity development.
The conclusion sums up the results of the research.