From late 20th century, a large number of Iranians have migrated to Western countries. Some of Iranian immigrants especially women in diaspora began writing memoirs which represent the questions of ethnics, identity, language and other problems they have grappled. Living in Western countries with different cultures positions emigrants in a state of ambivalence. This ambivalence creates a metaphorical lesion in their identities. In such conditions, Iranian diaspora searches for new identities through different ways. This searching is represented in Dumas’s Funny in Farsi (2003), narrating the life of Firoozeh and her life-style in America. With its humorous tone, her memoir deals with social aspects of living in Western culture and dilutes political features of most memoirs written by Iranian women in diaspora. This article aims to analyze Firoozeh Dumas’s Funny in Farsi through Homi Bhabha’s postcolonial theories of hybridity, mimicry and stereotype in order to represent how the characters of Funny in Farsi in specific and the Iranian immigrants in general can obtain new identities in the Western communities. It is concluded that the sense of superiority in Firoozeh is gained through celebrating her new, hybrid identity in the third space while her parents’ reluctance is depicted as inferior and humorous.

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