Arabic Literature

Postcolonial Criticism of Americanli with Emphasis on Spivak's Deconstructive Method

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

Somaye Khodaverdy 1
Bashiri Ali 1
Hamed Habibzadeh 2
Mohsen Saifi 1

1 Department of Arabic Language and Literature, University of Kashan, Kashan, Iran.

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

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2023.353983.612636
Abstract
In Americanli, Sonallah Ibrahim 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 Gayatri 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 showing the centrality of superior European imperialism, Ibrahim expresses the issue of bourgeois and epistemological violence of dominant Western colonialism in the form of oppression of the black minority. He reflects the voice of the subordinates of the society and depicts 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

Keywords

Postcolonial Criticism
Deconstruction
Textuality
Worldliness
Spivak
Americanli
Subjects
 
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  • Receive Date 17 January 2023
  • Revise Date 01 April 2023
  • Accept Date 25 April 2023

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