The Making of Immigrant Identities in Chang-rae Lee’s Native Speaker

This article analyzes the formation of multiple and hybird identities an immigrant in Korean American writer Chang-rae Lee's Native Speaker (1995). Growing up between ancestry surrounding, second-generation Henry feels uncertainty dilemma his sense belonging. He simultaneously travels both cultural spaces quest At times, he attempts to identify himself with space along White wife. However, reaction mainstream society immigrants Asian origin like him makes aware marginalized status US. In same way, cannot wholeheartedly ancestry. His upbringing milieu problematizes belonging space. negotiates third diaspora. negotiation renders multiplicities pluralities self, which reflects evolving subjectivities that deconstruct binary home host culture. examines hybrid through negotiations native Homi Bhabha’s notion space, including hybridity, identities, has been employed substantiate immigrants.