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The Ethnic Intersection between Culture and Identity in Selected Postcolonial Works
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This paper examines culture and identity in selected postcolonial works. The study looks into identity and culture to investigate the ethnic traits of Haitian, American, and Nigerian ethnicity depicted in the selected stories. It follows a close reading of the stories’ texts to explore the thematic nuances of Danticat’s, Walker’s, and Nwokolo’s postcolonial style. That is, the selected stories portray the literary reverberations created by Danticat and Walker, and Nwokolo to offer a universal view of the Haitian-American and Nigerian cultural changes that affected their native identity. By studying the characters and settings, the mythology applies the concepts of culture and identity to unravel the authors’ attempts to enhance their ethnicity teetering on the brink of postcolonial cultural transformation.
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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3968/13088
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