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Abstract
The present dissertation has introduced hybridity as an offshoot of postcolonial literature. This was to leave its immediate impact on the essence and spirit of the contemporary, literary scene. Kiran Desai and Ahdaf Soueif are two important contemporary novelists to reflect hybrid cultural and social identities. Among the many writers, who have fallen under the spell of post-colonialism, were two female novelists: the Indian-born American writer, Kiran Desai and the Egyptian-born English writer Ahdaf Soueif. They have one of two equally difficult choices: either to live in the ‘new’ imposed world, which is none of their dreams, or to stay still in the closed shield of their national identity. Desai and Soueif know too well, what it means when a person is plucked out of his/her roots and environment only to be transplanted in another soil or land.
This as is clear in the Introduction, where a brief review of the literature is conducted. Chapter One furnishes the intellectual background of the study, as the conceptual reflections of the divergence of the hybrid dimension are pointed out in connection with the life circumstances of Desai and Soueif. Chapters Two and Three together display the theoretical discussions of the several related perceptions of hybridity, revealing how postcolonial authors generate the practical implications and the pretentious interference of hybridity in their current social, cultural, political and literary arenas. Chapter Four presents the essence and the spirit of the postcolonial literary features as an authoritarian substance of hybridity.