Effect of Colonial Power on Hybridization in David Malouf’s Remembering Babylon

Abstract

Remembering Babylon by David Malouf is an award winning  post-colonial novel dealing with yet other multiple themes like colonialism, ecology, identity. Colonialism having had a great deal of after effects on all the nonwestern countries, Malouf arranges events in the novel that lines with colonial practices and their effects on both colonized and the colonizer in return. The paper thus deals with those practices that lead to the unfolding of many changes which included perceptions and pre conceived notions. The colonial practices are analyzed as different tools in the paper along with the effect that followed amidst the settlers.