MEMORY OF HOMELAND AND TRANSCULTURAL CONSTRUCTION OF IDENTITY IN CHRIS CLEAVE’S LITTLE BEE
The tragic death of the stowing away refugees minimizes them to usual announcements and little is known about the survivor refugees whose mere possessions are their memories. Little Bee, the protagonist of Chris Cleave in Little Bee, is one of these survivors trying to conceptualize her position bet...
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Fırat University
2019
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| Sumario: | The tragic death of the stowing away refugees minimizes them to usual announcements and little is known about the survivor refugees whose mere possessions are their memories. Little Bee, the protagonist of Chris Cleave in Little Bee, is one of these survivors trying to conceptualize her position between her past in Nigeria and her present in England. As a little kid, Little Bee is obliged to leave her hometown seized by an oil company. The family members and the villagers are killed by the company employees except her sister. To save their life, two sisters escape but the employees chase them and kill Little Bee’s sister as well. In response, Little Bee stows away on a cargo ship to Britain and is sent to immigrant detention center upon arriving. As a refugee, her search for identity and memory of homeland leading the transcultural construction of identity invite direct relation of Little Bee and discourses of postcolonial theorists; Frantz Fanon, Edward Said and Homi K. Bhabha. This paper, therefore, aims to present a comparative reading of Little Bee and the discourses of abovementioned theorists and question the postcolonial position of Little Bee in the construction of identity. |
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