Becoming an Identity Change in ‘No Longer at Ease’ Based on Deleuze’s Theory
محورهای موضوعی : Research PaperMaryam Sadeghi 1 , Fatemeh AzizMohammadi 2 , Mozhgan Yarahmadi 3
1 - Department of English Language, Arak Branch, Islamic Azad University, Arak, Iran
2 - Department of English Language, Arak Branch, Islamic Azad University, Arak, Iran
3 - Department of English Language, Arak Branch, Islamic Azad University, Arak, Iran
کلید واژه: desire, Becoming, Achebe, Deleuze and Guattari, Re-territorializing, Territorializing,
چکیده مقاله :
The main purpose of this essay is to investigate the role of becoming through political and social factors among the main character’s changing identity in Achebe’s No Longer at Ease. The researcher intends to depict the effects of political factors on the re-territorialization and territorialization of the main character through the framework of Deleuze’s theory. The current essay focuses on No Longer at Ease by Chinua Achebe to discover how becoming and transformation of identity take place throughout the novel and how the main character of the novel is going through constant change and becoming, which are the result of different forces. Moreover, the researcher intends to investigate the character’s desires that result in the becoming process of identity deriving from social and capitalist factors in society. Since Deleuze and Guattari’s distinctive definition of literature investigates how minor literature is produced in the dominant narratives of major literature, it can critically assist the present research to discuss that Achebe prepares the ground for indigenous, anticolonial voices in his novel No Longer at Ease. It can be concluded that the main character of Achebe’s No Longer at Ease is in flux due to different forces, and his identity goes through constant becoming.
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