Mimicry and Confused Identity as Represented in Ayad Akhtar's Disgraced

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      The objective of this paper is to represent how Muslim immigrants in the United States are placed within two different cultures leading them to have confused identity.  This is represented through the analysis of the Pakistani American play Disgraced (2012) for Ayad Akhtar (1970- ). The play depicts the journey of the protagonist Amir who struggles to overcome the pressures of the clash between the Eastern and Western cultures through "mimicry" which is manifested through the process of assimilation but actually it results in confused identity because of living in this 'in- between' space. The analysis of this paper depends on the theories of Homi Bhabha which discusses 'mimicry', ' ambivalence' and 'third space' to examine the contradictions inherent in colonial discourse which forces the colonized to have confused identity.

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