Research On The Cultural Identity Of The Moor's Last Sigh

Salman Rushdie,a representative writer of post-colonial literature,is known as the "three masters of immigrant literature" together with Naipaul and Kazuo Ishiguro.The complex experience of cross-cultural life makes Rushdie fall into the dilemma of identity.He has been searching for his own identity in the mixed culture of the East and the West,and has written his thoughts on homeland and cultural identity into his fiction.The Moor's Last Sigh reflects Rushdie's construction of multicultural identity.Firstly,there is a complex tendency of cultural identity in the novel.Under the influence of the Suzerain or Indian homelands the characters in the novel have formed different cultural identities of the east or the west.In addition,some characters cannot clearly identify with a certain culture in the face of complex cultural environment,thus forming a mixed cultural identity.Secondly,Rushdie uses theories such as Post-colonialism and Neo-historicism to construct cultural identity.He tries to build a mixed cultural identity in the "third space" that accommodates East and West culture,and gives the characters multiple identities by rewriting history and fictional family history by crossing the boundary of dualism.The result of construction has both success and failure,which reflects the difficult process of cultural identity construction.Finally,it is of great practical significance for Rushdie to construct multi-cultural identity.Influenced by post-modernist philosophy,Rushdie constructs a multicultural identity for the people who have lost their cultural identity by questioning authoritative narration and monism.Rushdie tries to create a Utopia in the literary world,which can make the pluralistic identity flow freely.At last,he drew attention to the cultural identity crisis in the background of post-colonial era with the literary tragedy of the Utopian ideal failure.