The Cultural Hybridity In The Moor's Last Sigh By Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie has obsession with relating the mysterious history and reality in the South Asian subcontinent.His rich culture and unique expatriation confer colorful hybridity on his works,especially his typical book The Moor's Last Sigh which tells in a political and allegorical manner by “Moor” Morais' s narration that the love and hatred about four generations of “Moor family” and the ups and downs of Indian society.The cultural hybridity can be seen throughout this book reflecting the past ans now.The research targets the hybrid culture in The Moor's Last Sigh.The thesis is comprised by the introduction,three chapters and the conclusion.The first chapter,based on the Moor family,involves the history of Indian cultural hybridity.The mixed culture and identity of the Moor family,namely Morais' s father Zogoiby's family and mother Da Gama's family,are derived from aspects like diversified histories,races and religions.The second chapter,founded on the painter Aurora,analyzes the relation between cultural hybridity and modern Indian culture.The cosmopolitan “Masala” Aurora creates the paintings of “Mooristan” and “Moor” by incorporating conventional Indian culture and modern Western creation,which illustrates that the vulnerable group seeks for hybridity identification and innovation in the complicated environment where the powerful culture is dominant.The third chapter,centered on the complex mixed Moor Morais,demonstrates the linkage between mixed culture and identity confusion of Indians in the modern era.Different from his mother Aurora,Morais is positioned in the heterogeneous culture and can't afford to make culture fusion and creation.He is silently torn apart by the hybrid Indian culture and reduced to paranoid,and hence he is perplexed and obstinate about life crossings like adulthood,love and society,which speaks volume that Indians wavier between homogeneous and heterogeneous identification.Rushdie brings back to life intricate individuals like Aurora and Morais,and vividly discloses the implications of culture hybridity to India,which is of enlightenment for people to think twice on cultural identification and creation etc in the mixed cultural climate.