The Identity of Postcolonial Peoples

“Formerly colonized peoples cannot fully define their postcolonial identities outside the influences of other cultures because, due to colonization and factors such as migration and adoption of Western systems, their identities ‘overlap’ with those of other peoples” (Preventing Things from Falling Further Apart: The Preservation of Cultural Identities in Postcolonial African, Indian, and Caribbean Literatures 146).