TIMOTHY MO'S SOUR SWEET: DIASPORIC IDENTITY AND THE CLAIMS OF REALITY
TIMOTHY MO'S SOUR SWEET: DIASPORIC IDENTITY AND THE CLAIMS OF REALITY

Summary/Abstract: Widely used in discussions of processes of migration and exchange across national borders in the present-day, postcolonial world, diaspora and diasporic identity have come to occupy a central position in discourses that view multiple and fluid social, cultural, ethnic and racial belongings among the key outcomes of these processes. The article discusses the development of diasporic identity as depicted in Timothy Mo's second novel Sour Sweet. Adopting Satya Mohanty's postpositivist realist theory of identity as its basis, the paper proposes that the diasporic identity depicted in the novel is a process of negotiation of meanings and values determined by social reality as experienced by its main characters.

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