Home is Exile: Identity Quest in Saud Al-Sanousi's Saq Al-Bamboo: A Post-modern Study

Abstract

This paper discusses identity quest in Saud Al-Sanousi's novel, Saq Al-Bamboo (2012), from a postmodern perspective. Al-Sanousi becomes one of the prominent Gulf modern novelists whose works widely discuss topics related to the unfair social, cultural, humanitarian and racist practices of the postmodern era such as identity fragmentation, hybridity, culture hegemony, citizenship rights, and oppression of minorities and foreign workers. Therefore, this paper sheds light on the topic of identity loss in Sauad Al-Sanousi's novel Saq Al-Bamboo.. The novel has been analysed by using the Post-modern theory. The findings of the study proved that the main characters in the novel severely suffered of their social and cultural alienation. In spite of their serious attempts to prove their identity, all these efforts went in vain due to the intransigence of strict laws and unfair traditions of  the Gulf society.The study will significantly contribute to the critical studies of postmodern literature and open new horizons for further studies.