A Captor held Unconsciously Captive: Postcolonial Iranian Identity and its Narration in Man of my Time 

Sammanfattning: This project aims to investigate the presentation of identity in Dalia Sofer’s novel Man of My Time with concepts coined by Homi K. Bhabha and further discussed by Stuart Hall and David Huddart. By first providing a background of historical context for Iran between 1950 and 1990, the thesis will then provide a discussion of the characters’ identities using concepts like hybridity, nationhood, stereotype, mimicry, and menace, while also providing relation to the real life experience of Iranians. Based on these results it is then discussed how much use there is for a concept like hybridity in the current political climate that is characterised by displacement and subjection. The need for fixed identity among minorities is explored before the research concludes by declaring that the concept of hybridity may be useful in other contexts but is not actionable for minorities that are forcefully stripped of it.