TY  - JOUR
T1  - Immigration as a Recuperative Process in The Emigrants
TT  - Immigration as a Recuperative Process in The Emigrants
AU  - Karagöz, Cengiz
PY  - 2019
DA  - December
Y2  - 2019
DO  - 10.35235/uicd.619240
JF  - Uluslararası İnsan Çalışmaları Dergisi
PB  - Bidge Yayınları
WT  - DergiPark
SN  - 2636-8641
SP  - 222
EP  - 233
VL  - 2
IS  - 4
LA  - en
AB  - George Lamming is a postcolonial author who has his roots in the Caribbeanislands in which he could witness harmful impacts of colonialism on the nativepopulation. Instead of losing his hope to resist the colonial legacy, heattempts to develop his anti-colonialist discourse through producing literarytexts in which he aims to raise awareness of the native peoples concerningtheir cultural and psychological destruction that emerged because of a longhistory of colonialism in the native land. His fiction underscores the demographicdiversity of the Caribbean islands which points to a variety of cultures, racesand ethnic descent exists as a result of immigration from other countries.Lamming believes that these various groups in the Caribbean can establish theirpolitical order by concentrating on their common and identical experiences aswell as sufferings in the colonial period since all of these native peopleoccupy the same inferior status in the eyes of the white colonisers. His novel The Emigrantsplaces the experiences, plight and psychological restructuring of the Caribbeanimmigrants in the European metropolis at its centre. The aim of this paper isto prove that being an immigrant in London and experiencing oppression andracism strengthen the immigrants’ sense of identification with the Caribbean. Thus, thisprocess prompts them to rescue themselves from the colonial domination byreturning to their native land where they think they belong to.
KW  - Lamming
KW  - Immigration
KW  - Federation
KW  - Exile
KW  - The Caribbean
KW  - Anti-Colonial Discourse
N2  - George Lamming is a postcolonial author who has his roots in the Caribbeanislands in which he could witness harmful impacts of colonialism on the nativepopulation. Instead of losing his hope to resist the colonial legacy, heattempts to develop his anti-colonialist discourse through producing literarytexts in which he aims to raise awareness of the native peoples concerningtheir cultural and psychological destruction that emerged because of a longhistory of colonialism in the native land. His fiction underscores the demographicdiversity of the Caribbean islands which points to a variety of cultures, racesand ethnic descent exists as a result of immigration from other countries.Lamming believes that these various groups in the Caribbean can establish theirpolitical order by concentrating on their common and identical experiences aswell as sufferings in the colonial period since all of these native peopleoccupy the same inferior status in the eyes of the white colonisers. His novel The Emigrantsplaces the experiences, plight and psychological restructuring of the Caribbeanimmigrants in the European metropolis at its centre. The aim of this paper isto prove that being an immigrant in London and experiencing oppression andracism strengthen the immigrants’ sense of identification with the Caribbean. Thus, thisprocess prompts them to rescue themselves from the colonial domination byreturning to their native land where they think they belong to.
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