Reflection of Cultural Identity; Analysis of Migration Narrative in ‘The Lightless Sky’ by Gulwali Passarly

Abstract

This dissertation analyses Gulwali Passarly’s the Lightless Sky to highlight the atrocities of migrants who do not have a voice. Under the vernacular of Cultural Identity theory by Jane Collier and Thomas Millat, this study presents a sharp contrast of cultural effects on the personality of migrant before and after migration. Textual analysis has used as a research method to interpret and analyze the text. The researcher has used a close reading and language analysis technique for this purpose. The study delineates the hope of salvation for a child refugee, and the sequential events of migration reveal the reshaping of cultural identity. The results of the study conclude that Gulwali Passarly’s character presents that how Cultural identity reshapes under several cultural influences and thus reveals the sufferings, emotions, pains, brutality of power, expressions, pitiable conditions, truths and challenges knitted with the words in the given genre of migration discourse.