A Postcolonial Approach to Contemporary Refugee Literature: Benjamin Zephaniah’s Refugee Boy
| dc.contributor.author | Bağlama, Sercan Hamza | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-01-27T19:41:07Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-01-27T19:41:07Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2020 | |
| dc.department | Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart Üniversitesi | |
| dc.description.abstract | Refugee Boy (2001) by Benjamin Zephaniah literalises the refugee experience in contemporary society, reveals the psychology of loss, unbelonging and displacement and helps universalise the traumatic realities of the refugee phenomenon upon innocent people in a ‘remote’ part of the world through its 14-year-old Eritrean-Ethiopian protagonist. In the novel, in order to be accepted and included into the mainstream ‘white’ society, the protagonist has a tendency to reshape and reconstitute his identity and personality in relation to what is presented as the proper and the superior. Such a sort of properness and superiority is discursively formed within the framework of the operation of the orientalist mentality and creates an ideal refugee identity, which resembles the case of the colonial subject in contemporary postcolonial fiction. In this context, this article, suggesting that the protagonist of the novel might be considered as a colonial subject, will investigate whether postcolonial theory might critically contribute to the analysis of contemporary refugee literature. This article will also attempt to theorise the process of postcolonial interpellation and explore the relevance of this conceptualisation in terms of articulating the refugee experience through a close reading of the novel. | |
| dc.identifier.endpage | 643 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 2149-9446 | |
| dc.identifier.issue | 10 | |
| dc.identifier.startpage | 630 | |
| dc.identifier.trdizinid | 473328 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://search.trdizin.gov.tr/tr/yayin/detay/473328 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12428/17535 | |
| dc.identifier.volume | 5 | |
| dc.indekslendigikaynak | TR-Dizin | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | TRT Akademi | |
| dc.relation.publicationcategory | Makale - Ulusal Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı | |
| dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | |
| dc.snmz | KA_TRD_20250125 | |
| dc.subject | Kültürel Çalışmalar | |
| dc.subject | Uluslararası İlişkiler | |
| dc.subject | Edebi Teori ve Eleştiri | |
| dc.title | A Postcolonial Approach to Contemporary Refugee Literature: Benjamin Zephaniah’s Refugee Boy | |
| dc.type | Article |
