ISSUE OF IDENTITY IN THE POSTCOLONIAL WORLD

This research will explore the issue of identity in postcolonial literature. In the modern world with the increasein immigrant numbers, hybrid nations, and the constitution of countries with different cultural diversities the question of identity came to the surface. The research will present and discuss those theorists' arguments about the issue of identity in the postcolonial world and how they viewed and presented their ideas about constructing identity in former colonized countries and immigrants from these countries who suffered from facing the diasporas and the dilemma of the difficulty to construct their identity. The paper will investigate postcolonial novelists, especially writers in former British colonies such as V.S. Naipaul, Sam Selvon, and Tayeb Salih. As postcolonial theorists considered the issue of identity as one of its essential discussions, novelists also exposed and expressed the conditions of identity crises that emerged in the post-colonial period. The method will undertake to apply postcolonial theories to the works of the above-mentioned novelists