The paper will deal with from postcolonial perspective, Salman Rushdie’s concepts of a heterogeneous Nation and diaspora in ‘The Ground Beneath Her Feet’ and ‘The Enchantress of Florence’. And how diasporic people amidst hybridity and plurality reconstruct their identity and cultures, and how they imagine their home and nation in the “third space”. Rushdie has not only given voice to the diasporic people/the minorities/ the others/ but also he has introduced multiculturalism, Globalization which shows that all those heterogeneous elements dismantle the official historiography of homogeneous nation construct. The rootless, dislocated people in search of rooted identity form imaginary homelands.
Keywords: Nation, Diaspora, Hybridity, Identity, Cultural eclecticism, Globalization
The writer will at first discuss Nation and diaspora in ‘The Ground Beneath Her Feet; then he will discuss Nation and diaspora in ‘The Enchantress of Florence’ More importance is to be given to the discussion on ‘The Enchantress of Florence’ .There is no separate introduction needed.
The paper will be written according to MLA 8th ed. format with the In-Text citations like ( Bhabha 122) At the end of the work and before the ‘Works Cited’ section the writer must give seven or eight ‘Notes’
