In-between Identity Articulated: A Postcolonial Analysis of Edward Bond’s The Sea.
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2025
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Abstract
This study examines the articulation of “in-between identity” in Edward Bond’s The Sea through the lens of postcolonial theory. The play depicts characters grappling with conflicting cultural, social, and ideological forces in a world still reeling from the aftermath of colonial trauma. The aim of this study is to explore how Bond portrays the fragmented and hybrid identities of his characters, reflecting broader postcolonial concerns of alienation, belonging, and power dynamics. Colonialism and post-colonialism both were very complicated and problematical that drawn bad impacts not only on colonized but also colonizers lives. Their true identities were neglected and they were (colonized) forced to apply colonizers values and norms that could be understood by theoretical framework of Homi k. Bhabha and Edward Said. Notions like “Hybridity, Ambivalence, Third Space and Mimicry as well as Edward Said’s notion of Orientalism and Eastern’ Inferiority, Othering and Complexity also analyzed in The Sea. It also showed that how The Sea was a liminal and broad space where characters navigate the tensions of colonial history and postcolonial modernity. By exploring their fractured identities, Bond critiqued social hierarchies and exposed the lingering impacts of colonialism on individual and collective consciousness. This study underscored the enduring relevance of Edward Bond’s The Sea in addressing postcolonial identity crises. It highlighted the play’s contribution to literary conversations on cultural hybridity and the challenges of navigating the residual effects of colonialism through different symbolic characters (Mrs Rafi, Hatch,Willy,Rose and Evans, Villagers) and different essential scenes and quotations that clearly described the anxiety and complications of Post-colonialism.
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| Authors | Hiza Shahid, Samina Yasmeen, Dr. Mumtaz Ahmad |
| Journal | Social Sciences & Humanity Research Review |
| Year | 2025 |
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