This paper investigates the resistance of immigrants to cultural dominance of London society in The Lonely Londoners, a postcolonial novel by Sam Selvon. The Lonely Londoners (1956) depicts the miserable life of Caribbean people who migrated in hope to find better condition of living than their countries. The paper furnishes a theoretic ground for analyzing the discourse of the novel which presents the subject of resisting dominant culture throughout events and language used by the novelist. The paradigm of immigrants, their trauma and shock have always been the spot line of discussion after WWII. Through the colonial history there was a dominant discourse of Western cultural superiority imposed on colonized, with the postcolonial era a different discourse emerged through intellectual presentations such as Fanon, Said, Bhabha ideas and others who enlightened literary theory and criticism and theorized resistance and cultural identity. Thus, this paper will critically analyze the discourse of resistance of Postcolonial people in exile to ascertain their existence and identity. Keywords: Post colonialism, Discourse analysis, Resistance, Identity

Up to date myths are regarded as universal and enduring for their depicting human’s understanding and knowledge. It presents clues and intimations to Man’s origins of belief and life. Harry Potter, a series of storytelling written by J.K. Rolling, is a metaphoric presentation of myths and cultural background behind each one of them. This study investigates and explores how J.K. Rolling involves in origins of cultural textually while sharing mythological ideas in modern literature as a creative way to give new senses to each of them. With its unique demonstration, Harry Potter places an outstanding position in giving myth a new dimension and ties ancient with present via a new style of mythmaking in modern literature. The study conducts an analytic explanation of the importance of mythmaking to literature in general and specifically in Harry Potter. The findings that the study arrives at are that myths are true replications of cultures and societies, and Rolling's stories make new connection with the depth of human superficiality as well as it renders the possibility to revive mythological mentality in modern era.

This paper presents postcolonial theory and its emergence from the fallout of colonial impact on the world after WWII. It reveals insight into historical actualities and traces the sequential line of thought and speculation of the period, how the issue of representation and self determination is displayed in theoretical argument. At that point it clarifies the issue of identity in the postcolonial theoretical line, and its critical role as the real issue of postcolonial theory. The paper additionally uncovers how scholars explore the situation of recognition and self-recognizable proof. Finally, it clarifies significant theorist contentions about identity independently and in agreement to the sequential course of events, for example, Frantz Fanon, Edward Said. It notes how every scholar viewed and hypothesized the issue of identity and to what extent these speculations are essential in postcolonial studies.

This paper examines the influence of T.S. Eliot's poem The Waste Land on Străni Něrgiz (Daffodil's Song) a poem by the contemporary Kurdish poet Dilshad Abdullah. One of the factors that make one literature influenced by another, in two different languages, is the existence of a masterpiece in one of them. The passage of this work will be either through the original language or through translation. The Kurdish poet Dilshad Abdullah (b.1956) started writing in the mid 1970s and was known in the 1980s. Abdullah has his peculiarity among poets of his generation. He is concerned with the needs of Kurdish culture in general. Besides Kurdish culture, he has been interested in foreign cultures and literatures, especially the poetry of T.S. Eliot. That is to develop his poetic talent, and to create a new style and form in Kurdish poetry. Abdullah gave T.S. Eliot special importance. One can easily notice the Eliotan imagery and techniques in his poems utilized by his own expressions and colored by his personal psychology. Accordingly, this study adopts a comparative method to reveal the influence of The Waste land on Strani Nergiz in a away enriched the style and techniques of Dilshad Abdulla's poetry in specific and Kurdish poetry in general. Consequently, he transferred certain stylistic features and techniques from The Waste Land into Kurdish poetry.

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