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Hybridity, Mimicry, and the Uncanny: Postcolonial Character in Bharati Mukherjee’s The Bride Tree | ||
| Journal of Applied Linguistics and Applied Literature: Dynamics and Advances | ||
| مقاله 15، دوره 10، شماره 1 - شماره پیاپی 19، تیر 2022، صفحه 219-234 اصل مقاله (280.35 K) | ||
| نوع مقاله: Research Article | ||
| شناسه دیجیتال (DOI): 10.22049/jalda.2022.27229.1305 | ||
| نویسندگان | ||
| Masoumeh Baei1؛ Behzad Pourgharib* 2؛ Abdolbaghi Rezaei Talarposhti3 | ||
| 1M.A in English Language and Literature, Golestan University, Gorgan, Iran | ||
| 2Assistant Professor of English Literature, Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Golestan University, Gorgan, Iran, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6162-7312 | ||
| 3Assistant Professor of English Literature, Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Golestan University, Gorgan, Iran, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6380-4845 | ||
| چکیده | ||
| The endeavor to establish reconciliation between the opposing demands of two cultural communities lies at the heart of some literary works associated with postcolonial literature. This theme, which is also central to the novels of Bharati Mukherjee, especially The Tree Bride, forms the plot of the novel and serves as an axis around which the characters are developed. The present article adopts the theories of Homi. K. Bhabha to expound upon the gap that distances the oriental and the occidental cultures from one another and renders fragmented the identity of the postcolonial individual. Bhabha’s notions of the uncanny and the hybrid identity are two central concepts that can serve as keys to explaining the postcolonial encounter. They can significantly contribute to the discussion of the novel as they can prepare the ground for the investigation of how anti-colonial resistance becomes possible through the third space that is created through hybridity and the uncanny. In The Tree Bride, the protagonist finds herself between two cultures that attempt to draw her into their own orbits. The protagonist’s mimicry of the target culture is an ironic one, since it consists of acceptance and rejection at the same time. In other words, while Tara Chatterjee mimics the norms and criteria of the target culture toward which she strives, she is influenced by her ancestral culture. The paper argues that such uncanny condition can be detrimental to the individual and plunge her into a deep identity crisis. | ||
| کلیدواژهها | ||
| Bharati Mukherjee؛ The Tree Bride؛ mimicry؛ hybridity؛ uncanny | ||
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