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MIGRATION AND IDENTITY (RE)CONSTRUCTION: THE SHAPING OF IDENTITY IN ERNEST J. GAINES’ CATHERINE CARMIER
Grounded on deconstruction, this paper stresses on the changes in migrants’ identity. It assesses the ambivalent impacts of migration on identity (re)formation in Catherine Carmier. For a community that considers migration as a quest for education and employment to improve its life…
COLONIALISM AND BLASPHEMED RACIALIZATION IN JOHN MAXWELL COETZEE’S WAITING FOR THE BARBARIANS
This research investigates the postcolonial concept of colonialism and blasphemed racialization in Waiting for the Barbarians by John Maxwell Coetzee. It analyzes the fractured relation between Blacks and Whites during colonization. In fact, colonial era has favored the domination of Whites over…
POST-MIGRATION BRITISH LITERATURE: AN ANALYSIS OF SPACE AND HYBRIDITY IN HANIF KUREISHI’S THE BUDDHA OF SUBURBIA (1990)
Black British literature is the space of representation of the migratory flow. It analyses the effect of emigration on literary productions. The present study is an investigation on the second generation of writers with the case of Hanif Kureishi, a writer from…
BLURRING IDENTITY AND BOUNDARY: CASE STUDY OF JAMES WELCH’S WINTER IN THE BLOOD
This article explores identity and boundary issues in Native American works of fiction. It focusses on James Phillip Welch’s Winter in the Blood analyzing the central character’s shuffling between Native Americans’ and Whites’ cultures. By means of a postmodern analysis, this article…
THE AFRICAN WOMEN IN THE ELSEWHERE: AN AFROPOLITAN ANALYSIS OF DARKO’S BEYOND THE HORIZON AND WALKER’S POSSESSING THE SECRET OF JOY
Globalization catalyses the proliferation of transnational literature across disciplines and the contemporary African and African-American novels are no exception. They develop Afropolitan topics in which emerge new kinds of migrating populations composed of people whose patterns of life encompass both their host…
INTRACONTINENTAL MIGRATION AND THE AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT: A STUDY OF NOVIOLET BULAWAYO’S WE NEED NEW NAMES
This paper intends to demonstrate the way movements across national borders within Africa foster the development of the continent. It explores NoViolet Bulawayo’s debut novel We Need New Names and brings out how the author has imagined such development capacity in the…
FOSTER CHILDREN’S IDENTITY ISSUE IN THE CONTEXT OF IMMIGRATION: A CASE STUDY OF THE NEW TRIBE BY BUCHI EMECHETA
This paper analyses a protagonist’s life whose membership inside his family seems to call in question his genuine identity for he is a foster child. This one is stigmatised because of his skin colour and hardly achieves to blossom within society. The…
BREXIT AND THE DIALECTIC OF THE EUROPEAN SPACE AND IDENTITY IN ANDREW MARR’S HEAD OF STATE
This paper examines the crisis of a common European identity in Andrew Marr’s novel, Head of State. Drawing on Karl Marx’s belief that life is materialistic; the article explores how Britain’s socio-economic crisis triggers the Britons’ animosity toward a common European socio-political…
NARRATING THE MULTIFORM IDENTITY: MIGRATION AND COSMOPOLITANISM IN HELON HABILA’S TRAVELLERS
This article explores the growing phenomenon of migration of people from former colonies to European countries. The tremendous economic and technological development, in addition to the projected western humanism and generosity constitute the main drives of this massive influx of migrants into…