An Analytical Study Of Bapsi Sidhwa’s Novel Cracking India Through Homi K. Bhabha’s Postcolonial Theory
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: This research article critically examines Bapsi Sidhwa’s novel Cracking India (1991) from the Postcolonial theoretical perspective of Homi k. Bhabha. With key concepts of hybridity, and mimicry. By applying qualitative research method of textual analysis, the research explores how socio-political disruptions caused the partition of sub-continent in 1947. The research findings indicate that the novel functions as literary and historical narrative representing the elements of hybridity and mimicry such as: identity disintegration, socio-cultural negotiation, and linguistic identities. The study also highlights related postcolonial concerns: gender discrimination, identity crisis, gender subjugation, and communal conflict. The research concludes that Sidhwa’s Cracking India embodies postcolonial concerns which significantly contribute to history of partition and postcolonial literature. nbsp;
Authors: Saira Solangi, Salma Shaikh
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W7220187385