Culture Identity

This study examines the core realities of identity and culture within human relationships. It illustrates the major influences culture and identity play within human relationships and various complexities that ensue. Using Freud’s psychoanalytic theory whose focus on the depiction of various factors, internal and external, that influence human actions. The study examines these complexities in view of how these factors influence human behaviour, actions and inactions in their interactions and relationships with others. The data used in this research was gotten from two primary texts whose focus is on culture and identity. The texts, In Every Mirror She's Black by Lola Akinmade Akerstorm and Wahala by Nikki May both highlight the difficulties found in several types of human connections, including romantic, platonic, and familial ones.. The study examines the multicultural setting and characters as a factor for identity formation and influence to the various complexities that occur within the various character relationships. It also examines the post-colonial feature of the work illustrating the ideas of migration, cultural duality and racism and their imprints on the identities of the characters and their relationships respectively. There is also the examination of the characters and the various qualities that contribute to these complexities. Their fears, imperfections and evolution in perceptions, actions and reactions during the work that contribute to some of the challenges they face in their relationships. There is the illustration of certain strategies employed by these groups to navigate through each of these complexities. The study shows that the evolving breed of multiculturalism, the various constraining realities and complexities that are faced by members of multicultural societies is a major effect of post-colonialism