Conflict Between Individual, Familial And Cultural

As a ‘becoming’ novel in the sense that it is a coming of age text, Nervous Conditions tells of the conflicts between individual, familial and cultural. The novel highlights the conflict that individuals meet when defining identity in a hybrid national and ethnical environment (Eslamieh). The coming of age being portrayed, revealing the hybrid between child and adult, allows the characters of Tambu and Nyasha to metaphorically reflect their conflicting hybrid surroundings through their grappling of such elements throughout the novel. Their contradicting reactions therefore reflect the contradicting outcomes which may occur from the intermingling of national and ethnical environments. The two main characters, Tambu and Nyasha, display a binary counterpart of each other, fully completing and opposing each other where they individually can’t. The relationship shared between the two characters as they come of age together is described by Tambu as a long, â€Å"involved conversation† full of openings and intricate pieces, a love affair which grew out of a fondness o someone that â€Å"I did not wholeheartedly approve.† (78) Differently but equally as effected by their surroundings, the two characters reveal how Eslamieh’s statement that â€Å"The individual growing up in a multinational hybrid society struggles to keep the tradition of his or her past while modernisation rapidly takes over† comes into play. The two characters however, offer insight into more rthan one outcome when acting asShow MoreRelatedObservational Ratings Of Therapist Interventions1268 Words   |  6 Pagesoutcomes at 6 and 12 months’ post-treatment for families receiving MDFT. 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