Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• somaye khodaverdy ¹
• bashiri Ali ²
• Hamed Habibzadeh ³
• mohsen saifi ²

¹ دانشگاه کاشان

² Education director of Kashan University

³ English Department, Faculty of Literature and Foreign Languages University of Kashan, Kashan, Iran

Abstract

Abstract

Postcolonial Criticism of Americanli with Emphasis on Spivak's Deconstructive

Method



In the novel Americanly, Sanaullah Ebrahim criticizes the American colonial policies on the lower class by examining the racist images in America. This article aims to answer the question of how much

Spivak's theoretical foundations have been represented in this novel. In response, it should be said that the current research aims to reveal the strategy of appropriation and ideology of the colonial world by analyzing the dialectic of the center and the periphery and othering And by examining the racial oppression of colonized people, she presents the bourgeois ideology of the colonizers' capitalist classes in the text and represents the opposition between the West and the East and the historical process of the subjugated in the novel. The results of this research indicate that by expressing the centrality of superior European imperialism, the issue of bourgeois and epistemological violence of dominant Western colonialism in the form of oppression of the black minority in his text and Ebrahim reflected the voice of the subordinates of the society and depicted the lack of agency and commodification of the political objects of his novel who were forced to remain silent and did not have the right to express any opinion.



key words: Postcolonial Criticism, Deconstruction, Textuality, Worldliness, Spivak, Americanli

Keywords

• Postcolonial Criticism"
• , Deconstruction"
• , Textuality, Worldliness"
• , Spivak,"
• . Americanli

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