Deconstructing the Rhetoric of Multiculturalism and Modernist Alterity

The contemporary world of Eliot is full of chaos and feeling of oddness caused by the western philosophy of binarism. The wasteland is timeless rhetoric of the said identity predicament where the modern man is seeking for peace and resonance that can only be possible by following eastern philosophy of acceptance and considering the shades beyond binaries as an important part of the existence as well. Postcolonial thoughts of Homi Bhabha and Gayatri Spivak’s concept of alterity are highlighted. By applying the philosophical framework of Deconstruction coined by Jacques Derrida, the researcher’s aim is to analyze and synthesize not only the hidden buried thoughts of a modern man to live in a peaceful multicultural society but also the ways through which he can bring peace in a modern world.