The (Un)homely and Migratory Literature in Alia Yunis’s The Night Counter
Subject Areas : Persian language and literature texts
SHOLEH
ABHARI LALEH
1
(PhD Student, Department of English Language and Literature, Karaj Branch, Islamic Azad University, Karaj, Iran.)
Fazel
Asadi Amjad
2
(Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran.)
Keywords: Hybridity, هومی بابا, پیوند خوردگی, ناخانگی, عالیا یونس, شمارندۀ شب, Homi Bhabha, (un)homely, Alia Yunis, The Night Counter,
Abstract :
The concept of home carries with itself an emotional and secure weight which usually gives one a sense of belonging and stability; however, for the migrant or the colonized subject the world is “unhomely”. Using the theories of Homi K. Bhabha concerning the unhomely, the present research attempts to focus on the dislocated state experienced by Fatima, the protagonist-narrator, in Alia Yunis’s novel, The Night Counter (2009), and the plurality that comes with being caught in the space of unhomely. In this research, the major question is that is there hierarchal privileges in cultural hybridity or not? Bhabha holds that hybridity is free from hierarchal privileges; while attesting to the wide range of practicality Bhabha's concept of unhomely enjoys in regard to the postcolonial diasporic communities, the researcher argues that there are such cases, as that of Fatima, in which the migrant manages to move beyond his or her geographical displacement and live a fully articulated cultural life in a Eurocentric culture via recourse to his or her native religio-cultural heritage. This proves the priority of one culture over the other rather than its absence as Bhabha claims since the passage of years do not prevent Fatima from following her native culture.
کتاب ها
Al Deek, Akram (2016). Writing Displacement: Home and Identity in Contemporary Post-Colonial English Fiction. US: Palgrave Macmillan.
Bhabha, Homi, K. (2004) The Location of Culture. NY: Routledge.
Ganguly, Keya (2001) States of Exception: Everyday Life and Post-Colonial Identity. Minneapolis: U. of Minnesota P.
Gomaa, Dalia M.A. (2016) The Non-National in Contemporary American Literature: Ethnic Women Writers and Problematic Belongings. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Liao, Pei-Chen (2013) Post-9/11 South Asian Diasporic Fiction: Uncanny Terror, London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Loomba, Ania (2015) Colonialism/Postcolonialism, London: Routledge.
Rapport, Nigel, and Andrew Dawson, eds. (1988) Migrants of Identity: Perceptions of Home in a World of movement, New York: Berg.
Royle, Nicholas (2003) The Uncanny, Manchester: Manchester UP.
Saran, Paramatma and Edwin Eames, eds. (1980) The New Ethnics: Asian Indians in the United States, New York: Praeger Scientific.
Yunis, Alia (2009) The Night Counter. New York: Shaye Areheart Books.
مقالات
فرهمندفر، مسعود (1394) جایگاهِ آستانهایِ فرهنگ: هُمی بابا و نظریۀ پسا استعماری، فصلنامۀ دانشگاه گلستان، دورۀ1، شمارۀ4 ، صص 17-34.
Bhabha, Homi, K. (1992) »The World and the Home«, Social Text,)31/32),pp 141–53.
Foucault, M., & Miskowiec, J. (1986). »Of Other Spaces«, Diacritics,16(1),pp 22-27.
Kaplan, Amy (2003) »Homeland Insecurities: Reflections on Language and Space«, Radical History Review, 85, 82-93.
Said, Edward (1984) »The Mind of Winter«, Harper’s Magazine Sept. (269),pp 49-55.
Singh, Hardev k. J. and Mani, Manimangai (2012) »K.S. Maniam, JhumpaLahiri, Shirley Lim: A Reflection of Culture and Identity« International Journal of Applied Linguistics & English Literature, (Vol. 1 No. 3); July 2012,pp 68-75 [Special Issue on World Literature in English].
Vinson, Pauline Homsi (2014) »Re-Encountering Scheherzade': Gender, Cultural Mobility, and Narrative Transformations in Alia Yunis's The Night Counter« Mashriq&Mahjar Journal of Middle East and North African Migration Studies, (vol. 2, no. 1),pp 56-77.
Yaghi, Adam (2015) »A Nation of Narrations: Religion, Hegemony, and Self-Identification in Arab American Literature« University of Victoria,pp 12-21.
Yunis, Alia (2014) »Afterword: My Arabian Superheroine Scheherzade’sChildern: Global Encounters with the Arabian Night« Ed. Philip F. Kennedy and Marina Warner. NYU Press, Proquest Ebook Central,pp 395-400
پایان نامه ها
Banerjee, Bidisha (2004) Ruptured Identities and Resistant Narratives: Mapping a Discourse of the Body in Indian Diasporic Women’s Motion and Film. Diss. University of Iowa.
Sinha, Amresh (2015) Memory, History, and Trauma in Chris Marker, Alain Resnais, Alexander Kluge, and Mira Nair’s Films. Diss. New York University.
_||_Books
Al Deek, Akram (2016). Writing Displacement: Home and Identity in Contemporary Post-Colonial English Fiction. US: Palgrave Macmillan.
Bhabha, Homi, K. (2004) The Location of Culture. NY: Routledge.
Ganguly, Keya (2001) States of Exception: Everyday Life and Post-Colonial Identity. Minneapolis: U. of Minnesota P.
Gomaa, Dalia M.A. (2016) The Non-National in Contemporary American Literature: Ethnic Women Writers and Problematic Belongings. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Liao, Pei-Chen (2013) Post-9/11 South Asian Diasporic Fiction: Uncanny Terror, London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Loomba, Ania (2015) Colonialism/Postcolonialism, London: Routledge.
Rapport, Nigel, and Andrew Dawson, eds. (1988) Migrants of Identity: Perceptions of Home in a World of movement, New York: Berg.
Royle, Nicholas (2003) The Uncanny, Manchester: Manchester UP.
Saran, Paramatma and Edwin Eames, eds. (1980) The New Ethnics: Asian Indians in the United States, New York: Praeger Scientific.
Yunis, Alia (2009) The Night Counter. New York: Shaye Areheart Books.
Articles
Farahmandfar, Massoud (2015) "The Threshold of Culture: Homi Baba and Postcolonial Theory", Golestan University Quarterly, Volume 1, Number 4, pp. 17-34.
Bhabha, Homi, K. (1992) »The World and the Home«, Social Text,)31/32),pp 141–53.
Foucault, M., & Miskowiec, J. (1986). »Of Other Spaces«, Diacritics,16(1),pp 22-27.
Kaplan, Amy (2003) »Homeland Insecurities: Reflections on Language and Space«, Radical History Review, 85, 82-93.
Said, Edward (1984) »The Mind of Winter«, Harper’s Magazine Sept. (269),pp 49-55.
Singh, Hardev k. J. and Mani, Manimangai (2012) »K.S. Maniam, JhumpaLahiri, Shirley Lim: A Reflection of Culture and Identity« International Journal of Applied Linguistics & English Literature, (Vol. 1 No. 3); July 2012,pp 68-75 [Special Issue on World Literature in English].
Vinson, Pauline Homsi (2014) »Re-Encountering Scheherzade': Gender, Cultural Mobility, and Narrative Transformations in Alia Yunis's The Night Counter« Mashriq&Mahjar Journal of Middle East and North African Migration Studies, (vol. 2, no. 1),pp 56-77.
Yaghi, Adam (2015) »A Nation of Narrations: Religion, Hegemony, and Self-Identification in Arab American Literature« University of Victoria,pp 12-21.
Yunis, Alia (2014) »Afterword: My Arabian Superheroine Scheherzade’sChildern: Global Encounters with the Arabian Night« Ed. Philip F. Kennedy and Marina Warner. NYU Press, Proquest Ebook Central,pp 395-400
Theses
Banerjee, Bidisha (2004) Ruptured Identities and Resistant Narratives: Mapping a Discourse of the Body in Indian Diasporic Women’s Motion and Film. Diss. University of Iowa.
Sinha, Amresh (2015) Memory, History, and Trauma in Chris Marker, Alain Resnais, Alexander Kluge, and Mira Nair’s Films. Diss. New York University.
