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THIRD SPACE: AN INTERCULTURAL NEGOTIATION OF SOUTH ÁSIAN DIASPORA IN CANADA to negotiate such a cross-cultural representation through "third cultures," which I see as “authentic” modes of representation channels, relaying nuances of minority belonging in Canada. First Space: Second Space . a » ~ Diasporic “Home — Western "Host" — Transnational Communities — Inhabited by the Immigrants of South Asia — Strong South Asian Cultural — Anglophone Western Communities — Inhabited by natives of Anglophone West — Strong British/French/ American Cultural Influences Influences — Co-ethnic South Asian space Third Space — Hybridization/ Intersection of the First and Second Spaces — Fluidity of being both “Home” and “Work” at the same time — Occupied by South Asian - Westerners — Conducive for South Asian Disporic Expressions — Invites both the Diasporic and the Host to meet at cultural intersections Figure I: Representation of the “Postcolonial-Postmodern-Urban” South AsianWestern Third Space. THIRD CULTURE It is the collision of South Asian culture with the mainstream Canadian Anglophone or French one which gives rise to the Third Space, an in-between condition forming liminalities and identities that can very well be Indian/ Pakistani/Bangladeshi-Canadian. The “transient” nature of South Asian immigrant identity in the Canadian landscape is a multi- and cross-cultural
