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POSCOLONIAL FEMINISM: QUEST FOR IDENTITY IN FRUIT OF THE LEMON

Cilt: 11 Sayı: 1 30 Nisan 2025
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POSCOLONIAL FEMINISM: QUEST FOR IDENTITY IN FRUIT OF THE LEMON

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Postcolonial feminism operates as a disruptive force against monolithic narratives of gender and race, interrogating the entangled legacies of colonialism and the silencing of diasporic identities. In Fruit of the Lemon, Andrea Levy intricately crafts the odyssey of Faith Jackson—a British-born woman of Jamaican descent—whose fractured sense of self embodies the volatile negotiations of heritage, belonging, and resistance within a postcolonial landscape. This study delves into the labyrinthine interplay of migration, cultural hybridity, and systemic exclusion, revealing how Britain’s historical amnesia distorts the diasporic consciousness. Levy’s narrative functions as both an excavation and a reclamation of diasporic histories, a counter-discourse against the erasure embedded in Western-centric feminist frameworks. Through Faith’s existential unraveling and reconstruction, the novel subverts assimilationist pressures and exposes the racialized architectures of exclusion that second-generation diasporic women navigate. Anchored in postcolonial feminism and intersectionality, this analysis deciphers how Levy dismantles dominant racial and gendered paradigms, foregrounding the imperative of historical consciousness in identity formation. Ultimately, Fruit of the Lemon emerges as an insurgent text—a site of defiance against exclusionary historiographies and a manifesto for the recognition of race, gender, and migration in contemporary identity discourses.

Anahtar Kelimeler

Kaynakça

  1. Baucom, I. (1999). Out of place: Englishness, empire, and the locations of identity. Princeton University Press.
  2. Bhabha, H. K. (1994). The location of culture. Routledge.
  3. Brah, A. (1996). Cartographies of diaspora: Contesting identities. Routledge.
  4. Bromley, R. (2019). Narratives for a new belonging: Diasporic cultural fictions. Edinburgh University Press.
  5. Crenshaw, K. (1989). Demarginalizing the intersection of race and sex: A Black feminist critique of antidiscrimination doctrine, feminist theory, and antiracist politics. University of Chicago Legal Forum, 1989(1), 139–167.
  6. Fanon, F. (1967). Black skin, white masks (C. L. Markmann, Trans.). Grove Press.
  7. Gandhi, L. (1998). Postcolonial theory: A critical introduction. Columbia University Press.
  8. Gilroy, P. (1993). The Black Atlantic: Modernity and double consciousness. Harvard University Press.

Ayrıntılar

Birincil Dil

İngilizce

Konular

Dünya Dilleri, Edebiyatı ve Kültürü (Diğer)

Bölüm

Araştırma Makalesi

Yayımlanma Tarihi

30 Nisan 2025

Gönderilme Tarihi

28 Şubat 2025

Kabul Tarihi

21 Nisan 2025

Yayımlandığı Sayı

Yıl 2025 Cilt: 11 Sayı: 1

Kaynak Göster

APA
Güven, F. (2025). POSCOLONIAL FEMINISM: QUEST FOR IDENTITY IN FRUIT OF THE LEMON. Ağrı İbrahim Çeçen Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi, 11(1), 25-50. https://doi.org/10.31463/aicusbed.1648541
AMA
1.Güven F. POSCOLONIAL FEMINISM: QUEST FOR IDENTITY IN FRUIT OF THE LEMON. Ağrı İbrahim Çeçen Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi. 2025;11(1):25-50. doi:10.31463/aicusbed.1648541
Chicago
Güven, Fikret. 2025. “POSCOLONIAL FEMINISM: QUEST FOR IDENTITY IN FRUIT OF THE LEMON”. Ağrı İbrahim Çeçen Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi 11 (1): 25-50. https://doi.org/10.31463/aicusbed.1648541.
EndNote
Güven F (01 Nisan 2025) POSCOLONIAL FEMINISM: QUEST FOR IDENTITY IN FRUIT OF THE LEMON. Ağrı İbrahim Çeçen Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi 11 1 25–50.
IEEE
[1]F. Güven, “POSCOLONIAL FEMINISM: QUEST FOR IDENTITY IN FRUIT OF THE LEMON”, Ağrı İbrahim Çeçen Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi, c. 11, sy 1, ss. 25–50, Nis. 2025, doi: 10.31463/aicusbed.1648541.
ISNAD
Güven, Fikret. “POSCOLONIAL FEMINISM: QUEST FOR IDENTITY IN FRUIT OF THE LEMON”. Ağrı İbrahim Çeçen Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi 11/1 (01 Nisan 2025): 25-50. https://doi.org/10.31463/aicusbed.1648541.
JAMA
1.Güven F. POSCOLONIAL FEMINISM: QUEST FOR IDENTITY IN FRUIT OF THE LEMON. Ağrı İbrahim Çeçen Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi. 2025;11:25–50.
MLA
Güven, Fikret. “POSCOLONIAL FEMINISM: QUEST FOR IDENTITY IN FRUIT OF THE LEMON”. Ağrı İbrahim Çeçen Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi, c. 11, sy 1, Nisan 2025, ss. 25-50, doi:10.31463/aicusbed.1648541.
Vancouver
1.Fikret Güven. POSCOLONIAL FEMINISM: QUEST FOR IDENTITY IN FRUIT OF THE LEMON. Ağrı İbrahim Çeçen Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi. 01 Nisan 2025;11(1):25-50. doi:10.31463/aicusbed.1648541