Rationalizing ‘identity’ through Virginia Woolf’s Lily Briscoe in To the Lighthouse

The 1927 publication of Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse (2007) was a landmark for both author and development novel in England. Since death 1941, has risen importance as focus criticism concerning issues gender, empire, class. This paper will not be focused on narrative techniques used by Woolf ‘stream consciousness’ been covered excessively many scholars. It rather repositions within critical framework laid out Toni Morrison two her works, Playing Dark (1992) Origin Others (2017), to extend Edward Said’s argument hegemony discussed his Orientalism (2003) rationalize Woolf’s own understanding identity 21st century racial framework. discussion Morrison’s text invites, I argue paper, re-positioning link between Mrs. Ramsay Lily Briscoe into new perspective, beyond representation simply an ‘Orient’. presents more concise creative literary texts reflect subjective conviction question.