Diaspora And Nostalgia: The Issue Of Identity In The Post-colonial Context

Identity is an important concept in contemporary Western Literary and culturalstudies. There is a common sense, in modern society, people affected by the constructof cultural. Literature has not only made identity a theme; it has played a significantrole in the construction of the identity of people. Does discourse represent identitiesthat already exist or does it produce them? This has been a major theoretical issue. Ifpeople want to discuss the issue of Identity in the post-colonial context, which meansthey agree with this sense that identification works to create identity. Due to variousfactors effected to create identification, result in many contradictory phenomenons.How many ways of identification? How to study Identity? Why the question ofIdentity turns into “what we become”, taking the place of “what we are”? What’s themeaning of the notion of “diaspora”? People could take it as a social experience, as aliterary metaphor, as an analytical category, as a form of political imagination. Evendo definition is difficult; there are three meanings of diaspora in space, time and spiritclearly. The new question turning up, this is how to understand “nostalgia”? Howmany helpful enlightenment people got from the sense of pluralism andpost-colonialism? These issues have to make people to think. This article is alsobased on discussion of these issues, attempting comprehend Identity, throughdiscussing Diaspora and Nostalgia. Even this article does not give rise to harmonioussolutions, also practicing the identification about identity and life.