RETHINKING ENGLISHNESS: MULTICULTURALISM AND THE QUESTION OF BELONGING
Journal Title: International Journal of English and Literature (IJEL) - Year 2017, Vol 7, Issue 2
Abstract
The notion of Englishness defies any fixed framework of cultural representation which in the course of time has enlarged itself to include a medley of disparate culturalities and discursive possibilities. The idea of a multicultural society challenges its homogenizing premise of essentialist identification with its diversified heterogeneous accommodations pointing out a summative erosion of the legacy of the Empire and its exclusively nationalistic connotations. As a post-imperialist nation England is fast losing its hold on the faltering myth of Englishness and its sense of a coherent national identity making rooms for a large numbers of non-English populace at different levels of identification and belonging. The paper seeks to demonstrate these ways in which England with its cosmopolitan inclusivity manages to re-invent itself nourishing a common culture of fragmented loyalties and affiliations created out of the multiple movements and cross- connectivities of migration and multicultural realities.
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GURUDEV MEHER
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