Conflict at the basis of identity building: novels od transformation

• Autor(a) principal: Loureiro, Paula Eduarda Fernandes
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10773/11973
• topic: Literatura - Teses de mestrado; Literatura pós-colonial; Literatura de expressão inglesa; Identidade

This thesis focuses on an analysis of literary examples of modern fiction, starting from different processes of colonization and decolonization. The objective is to underline the consequences of the (inter)national phenomenon seen from the personal identity of individuals coming from former colonies, focusing attention on the homeless writer, culturally and socially uprooted, and on the literary treatment of this experience. The analysis follows the notions of the Bildungsroman in the context of postcolonial literature. Each novel contributes with a different perspective, beginning with a multi-layered analysis of the individual born in a colony which has become an independent country, moving on to an analysis of the relationships resulting from the involuntary distance of the individual of his roots, in a process which comprises contradictory relationships with the concept of motherland, in the search of identity. Novels of writers from different origins were chosen, all writing in English.