Hybridity and national identity in postcolonial literatureEvery human being, in addition to having their own personal identity, has a sense of who they are in relation to the community more wide - the nation. . Postcolonial studies is an attempt to shed the conventional perspective and examine what this national identity might be for a postcolonial subject. To read literature from the perspective of postcolonial studies is to seek out – to listen to that indigenous, representative voice that can inform the world of the essence of existence as a colonial subject or as a postcolonial citizen. Postcolonial authors use their literature and poetry to solidify, through critique and celebration, an emerging national identity, which they have taken responsibility for representing. There is no doubt that the reassessment of national identity is an eventual and essential outcome of a country's independence from a colonial power or a country emerging from an emerging settler colony . However, claiming to be representative of this entire identity is a huge undertaking for an author trying to convey a postcolonial message. Every nation, province, island, state, neighborhood and individual is a unique amalgam of history, culture, language and tradition. Only by understanding and embracing the idea of ​​cultural hybridity when attempting to explore the concept of national identity can an individual, or nation, truly hope to understand or communicate the lasting effects of colonial process. Postcolonialism is the continued crumbling of the old skin. of Western thought and discourse and the emergence of a new self-awareness, critique and celebration. With this self-awareness comes self-expression. But how should the medium of paper be an institution - a single voice that would express its own sense of national identity. But exploration of these societies and the literature produced by postcolonial authors and poets shows that there are a truly infinite number of different circumstances inherent in each postcolonial society and, therefore, in each literary work produced by postcolonial writers. If one is to read this literature in a way that sheds some light on the postcolonial condition, one must understand and embrace the theory that we are all walking amalgams of our own cultures and traditions. We are all still struggling with our own identity, personal and national. We must understand that there is no "one true voice" representing an easily identifiable postcolonial condition, but rather, each author is his or her own voice and should be read as such...