Term of Award
Fall 2019
Degree Name
Master of Arts in English (M.A.)
Document Type and Release Option
Thesis (open access)
Copyright Statement / License for Reuse
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Department
Department of Literature
Committee Chair
Joe Pellegrino
Committee Member 1
Gautam Kundu
Committee Member 2
Hans-Georg Erney
Abstract
The Postcolonial novel attempts to reveal the crimes and lasting effects of colonization. By looking at Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih, The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje, and The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid, I intend to reveal how the inversion of the typical postcolonial gender dynamic changes the conversation about the relationship between the colonizer and the colonized. The male, colonized characters within these works are used as surrogates for something that the colonizer, female has lost or desires. This change in relationship draws attention to the way in which past empires still exert their influence on former colonies. The methods of the colonizer have changed from outright conquest to a covert neocolonization that draws the colonized to the core of the empire in order to exert power.
Recommended Citation
Turner, Jackson T., "The Subaltern as Surrogate: Identity and Gender in Contemporary Postcolonial Novels" (2019). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 2002.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/etd/2002
Research Data and Supplementary Material
No
