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Unearthing Colonial Wounds: Tracing the Impacts of Trauma on Indian Identity in Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss | ||
Critical Literary Studies | ||
مقالات آماده انتشار، پذیرفته شده، انتشار آنلاین از تاریخ 01 مهر 1404 | ||
نوع مقاله: Original Article | ||
نویسندگان | ||
Marzieh Izadi1؛ Hamideh Molaei* 2؛ Reza Bagheri3 | ||
1Department of South and East Asia and Oceania Studies, Faculty of World Studies, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran | ||
2Department of South and East Asia and Oceania Studies, Faculty of World Studies, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran. | ||
3Department of European Studies, Faculty of World Studies, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran | ||
چکیده | ||
The impact of colonization on identity construction has emerged as a critical area of inquiry, particularly among postcolonial writers, novelists, and theorists. This paper investigates the psychological and cultural ramifications of colonial domination on the identity formation of colonized individuals, with particular emphasis on experiences of alienation and identity loss. The novel The Inheritance of Loss (2006), by Kiran Desai is analyzed through the theoretical frameworks of Stuart Hall’s concept of cultural identity and Frantz Fanon’s exploration of colonial trauma and its effects on subjectivity. This study contends that colonization fundamentally disrupts the continuity of cultural identity and induces a condition of psychological fragmentation, resulting in enduring displacement, alienation, and a decentered sense of self among the colonized. The findings demonstrate that in The Inheritance of Loss, colonial trauma manifests through internalized cultural inferiority, linguistic alienation, and intergenerational identity rupture, particularly visible in the judge’s self-erasure and Biju’s diasporic disillusionment. These experiences reveal a uniquely postcolonial condition of fractured identity, marked by alienation, double displacement, and a decentered sense of self rooted in the enduring psychological legacies of colonial domination. | ||
کلیدواژهها | ||
Diaspora؛ Postcolonialism؛ Kiran Desai؛ The Inheritance of Loss؛ Frantz Fanon؛ Stuart Hall | ||
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