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Finding the True Self: The Reconstruction of Identity in Dottie from the Post-colonial Feminist Perspective

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DOI: 10.23977/langl.2024.070819 | Downloads: 5 | Views: 94

Author(s)

Dai Mengyao 1

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1 Liaoning University, Shenyang, Liaoning, China

Corresponding Author

Dai Mengyao

ABSTRACT

Abdulrazak Gurnah is one of the post-colonial novelists and a literary critic and won the Nobel Prize for writing in 2021. As an author with strong sense of social responsibility and morality, Gurnah bases most of his works on the colonial history from the perspective of Africans, trying to gain domestic and international attention for his concerning about identity, social conflict, racial conflict and gender oppression. The novel Dottie demonstrates an African girl who created her own sphere of space and identified herself to defend against the harsh racialism in the 1950s in Britain. This paper attempts a brief illustration from the perspective of post-colonial feminism on this novel as well as a prospect for its future.

KEYWORDS

Abdulrazak Gurnah; Post-colonial feminism; Identity; Dottie

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Dai Mengyao, Finding the True Self: The Reconstruction of Identity in Dottie from the Post-colonial Feminist Perspective. Lecture Notes on Language and Literature (2024) Vol. 7: 134-138. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/langl.2024.070819.

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