Abstract
Literature
does not exist in a vacuum as it projects the socio-political and economic
issues in human society. Diaspora literature as a sub-genre of literature beams
its search light on either forceful enslavement of individuals from their
homeland or voluntary migration from homeland to another world in search of
greener pastures. The crux of this paper is to showcase the complexity of
diasporic experiences ranging from identity crisis and /or double
consciousness. In order to foreground this, Samuel Selvon’s Lonely Londoners
(1956) and Buchi Emecheta’s Second Class Citizen (1974) are employed as
it explicates the complexity of identity crises. The texts also serve as
renaissance to the on-going influx of blacks and West Indians to the Western
World. The study adopts Postcolonialism as theoretical basis for assessment in
depicting how the characters in the selected texts grapple with issues of
identity, race, alienation and nostalgic feelings in the new homeland.The study
observes the authors come from different climate yet same
setting, present valuable insights into racial complexity struggle in
multicultural societies as individual migrant navigate through this conflict by
hybridity and social cohesion.
Key Words:
Diaspora, Diapora Literature, Migration, Postcolonialism, Hybridity, Mimicry
DOI: 10.36349/alqajolls.2026.v01i02.035
author/Hanafi Monsur Alabere, Issa Aishat & Ibrahim Balikis
journal/AL-QALAM JLLS 1(2) | June 2026
