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Postcolonialism Revisited: Representations of the Subaltern in Fadia Faqir’s Pillars of Salt
Tawfiq Yousef
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DOI:10.17265/1539-8072/2016.05.007
Middle East University, Amman, Jordan
Postcolonial theory is a well-established critical approach that addresses issues such as the quest for identity, the significance of land, homelessness, resistance, and the encounter between the colonized and the colonizers. This paper examines the postcolonial elements utilized by the Anglo-Jordanian novelist Fadia Faqir in her novel Pillars of Salt. It discusses the novel’s themes and techniques associated with postcolonialism as a literary theory and as a critical approach. Being a postcolonial text, the novel shows the writer’s attempt at writing back in response to the colonial past with its power structures and social hierarchies. Thematically, the novel is analyzed with special reference to such topics as the subaltern, Anglo-Jordanian ties, language, otherness, and identity. The paper also traces the continuity of postcolonial discourse in Faqir’s novel and gives a short survey of the historical events that provide the background to the main events in this essentially postcolonial work.
postcolonialism, subaltern, Faqir
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