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Post-Colonial Reading Of Isabel Allende’s The Japanese Lover
ISSN: 2617 - 0299
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Post-Colonial Reading Of Isabel Allende’s The Japanese Lover
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Publisher: International Journal Of Linguistics, Literature And Trans..
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Abstract
This research will explore the result of studying different aspects of identity seeking and establishing it as a liminal-prone one in a hybridized atmosphere among the colonized in terms of post-colonial discourse, based on Bhabha’s theories in his book, The Location of Culture, and on Isabel Allende’s novel, The Japanese Lover (2015). This study strives to expose the way through which the colonized characters’ identities in the novel undergo radical transformation through the third space which is heavily laced with qualities like ambivalence, stereotype, mimicry, and unhomeliness. Isabel Allende is an author whose novels mostly are an attempt to delineate the process of identity shaping particularly in the USA, since identity has always been an obsession for human which is defined based on different properties, one of which refers to the nation, culture and the territories based on Bhabha’s notion of hybridity which stems fro...
