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Hybridity and Mimicry in Alex Haley’s Roots
(UMT, Lahore, 2025) Fizzah Kafeel
This research study aims to explore the concept of hybridity and mimicry in the characters, which is the result of colonialism in Alex Haley’s Roots. It highlights how different characters throughout the novel face the horrors of slavery and colonialism and how that horror haunts them throughout their lives. It also hunts down the ways through which the slaves save themselves from the brutalities of the colonizers. The theoretical framework applied while conducting this research is Homi K. Bhabha’s Post Colonial theory of Hybridity and Mimicry. Homi K. Bhabha’s work is influenced by the ideas of Frantz Fanon and Jacquez Derrida, which talks about colonial psychology and identity. Through their ideas Homi K. Bhabha developed the idea of hybridity and mimicry. The method used in conducting this research is qualitative research method and the data has been collected by in-depth reading of the text and by analyzing different related articles. This research is going to unfold the cruel and dark history of slaves in America through the characters of Kunta Kinte, Kizzy, Chicken George, Tom Lea, and their ultimate struggle to find freedom. It shows that how African people were uprooted from their homeland, and how it affects their whole generation. This research study is also going to uncover the ways through which the slaves showed their resistance against slavery