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Yıl 2025, Sayı: 30, 533 - 546, 29.10.2025
https://doi.org/10.29029/busbed.1689018

Öz

Kaynakça

  • REFERENCES
  • Ali, M. (2007) Brick Lane. Black Swan.
  • Ashcroft, B., Griffiths, G., Tiffin, H. (2007). Post-Colonial Studies: the key concepts .2nded. Routledge. Bhabha, H. K. (1994) The location of culture. Routledge.
  • Cormack, A. (2006) Migration and the politics of narrative form: Realism and the postcolonial subject in Brick Lane. Contemporary Literature, 47(4), 695–721. https://www.jstor.org/stable/4489184
  • Hall, S. (1995) Cultural identity and diaspora. In P. Williams & L. Chrisman (Eds.), Colonial discourse and postcolonial theory (pp. [page range]). Harvester Wheatsheaf.
  • Hiddleston, J. (2005) Shapes and shadows: (Un)veiling the immigrant in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane. The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 40(1), [567-569].
  • Santesso, E. (2013) Disorientation: Muslim identity in contemporary Anglophone literature. Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Southmayd, S. (2015) Diasporic mobility and identity in flux in V. S. Naipaul’s The Mimic Men and Monica Ali’s Brick Lane. In S. R. Mehta (Ed.), Exploring gender in the literature of the Indian diaspora (pp. 60-83). Cambridge Scholars Publisher.
  • Güven, F. (2024). Liminal margins and the appropriation of the inherited codes and imposed patterns in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s The Last Gift. Journal of Narrative and Language Studies, 12 (26), pp. 391-405.
  • Güven, F. and Aldemir, N. (2025 )Hybridity, identity, and diaspora in Zadie Smith’s White Teeth. (2025). Journal of Nusantara Studies (JONUS), 10(1), 94- 113. https://doi.org/10.24200/jonus.vol10iss1pp94-113
  • Upstone, S. (2007) Same old, same old. Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 43(3).

MONICA ALI’ NİN BRICK LANE ROMANINDA MELEZLEŞME, TAKLİT VE KİMLİK OLUŞUMU

Yıl 2025, Sayı: 30, 533 - 546, 29.10.2025
https://doi.org/10.29029/busbed.1689018

Öz

Bu çalışma, Monica Ali’nin Brick Lane (2007) adlı romanını sömürgecilik sonrası göç bağlamında kimlik oluşumu, melezlik ve taklit temaları çerçevesinde eleştirel bir biçimde incelemektedir. Homi Bhabha’nın kuramsal çerçevesi doğrultusunda yapılan analiz, Ali’nin Londra’nın Tower Hamlets bölgesindeki Bangladeşli göçmenler arasında yaşanan diasporik kimlik, kültürel müzakere ve kuşaklar arası gerilimleri nasıl yansıttığını araştırmaktadır. Romanın başkahramanı Nazneen, ataerkil geleneklerle ev sahibi toplumun gerçeklikleri arasında sıkışıp kalan birinci kuşak göçmenlerin yaşadığı zorlukları somutlaştırmaktadır. Nazneen’in öznel bir kimlik ve özerklik kazanma süreci, taklit yoluyla asimilasyon çabaları başarısızlıkla sonuçlanan kocası Chanu’nun deneyimleriyle tezat oluşturmaktadır. Benzer şekilde, ikinci kuşak karakterler olan Shahana ve Razia’nın çocukları da ebeveyn beklentilerine direnirken melez kimlikleri müzakere etmenin zorluklarını ortaya koymaktadır. Roman, göçün katı kültürel ikilikleri nasıl sarstığını vurgulamakta; melezliği hem bir direniş hem de dönüşüm alanı olarak sunmaktadır. Bu çalışmada söz konusu mücadeleler, postkolonyal teori bağlamında ele alınmakta ve Brick Lane’in kimlik müzakeresi, kültürel melezlik ve sömürge mirasının diasporik öznelikler üzerindeki kalıcı etkilerine dair edebi bir anlatım sunduğu ileri sürülmektedir.

Kaynakça

  • REFERENCES
  • Ali, M. (2007) Brick Lane. Black Swan.
  • Ashcroft, B., Griffiths, G., Tiffin, H. (2007). Post-Colonial Studies: the key concepts .2nded. Routledge. Bhabha, H. K. (1994) The location of culture. Routledge.
  • Cormack, A. (2006) Migration and the politics of narrative form: Realism and the postcolonial subject in Brick Lane. Contemporary Literature, 47(4), 695–721. https://www.jstor.org/stable/4489184
  • Hall, S. (1995) Cultural identity and diaspora. In P. Williams & L. Chrisman (Eds.), Colonial discourse and postcolonial theory (pp. [page range]). Harvester Wheatsheaf.
  • Hiddleston, J. (2005) Shapes and shadows: (Un)veiling the immigrant in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane. The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 40(1), [567-569].
  • Santesso, E. (2013) Disorientation: Muslim identity in contemporary Anglophone literature. Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Southmayd, S. (2015) Diasporic mobility and identity in flux in V. S. Naipaul’s The Mimic Men and Monica Ali’s Brick Lane. In S. R. Mehta (Ed.), Exploring gender in the literature of the Indian diaspora (pp. 60-83). Cambridge Scholars Publisher.
  • Güven, F. (2024). Liminal margins and the appropriation of the inherited codes and imposed patterns in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s The Last Gift. Journal of Narrative and Language Studies, 12 (26), pp. 391-405.
  • Güven, F. and Aldemir, N. (2025 )Hybridity, identity, and diaspora in Zadie Smith’s White Teeth. (2025). Journal of Nusantara Studies (JONUS), 10(1), 94- 113. https://doi.org/10.24200/jonus.vol10iss1pp94-113
  • Upstone, S. (2007) Same old, same old. Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 43(3).

HYBRIDIZATION, MIMICRY, AND IDENTITY FORMATION IN MONICA ALI’S BRICK LANE

Yıl 2025, Sayı: 30, 533 - 546, 29.10.2025
https://doi.org/10.29029/busbed.1689018

Öz

This study critically examines Brick Lane (2007) by Monica Ali, focusing on the novel’s exploration of identity formation, hybridity, and mimicry within the context of postcolonial migration. Through Homi Bhabha’s theoretical framework, the analysis investigates how Ali portrays the complexities of diasporic identity, cultural negotiation, and intergenerational tensions among Bangladeshi immigrants in London’s Tower Hamlets. The protagonist, Nazneen, embodies the struggles of first-generation immigrants as she navigates the liminal space between her inherited traditions and the realities of her host society. Her journey toward self-determination is contrasted with the experiences of her husband, Chanu, whose failed attempts at assimilation highlight the limitations of mimicry and the psychological toll of cultural displacement. Similarly, second-generation characters, including Shahana and Razia’s children, illustrate the challenges of negotiating hybrid identities while resisting parental expectations. The novel underscores the ways in which migration disrupts rigid cultural binaries, offering hybridity as both a site of resistance and transformation. By contextualizing these struggles within postcolonial theory, this study contributes to a nuanced understanding of Brick Lane as a literary articulation of identity negotiation, cultural hybridity, and the ongoing impact of colonial legacies on diasporic subjectivities.

Kaynakça

  • REFERENCES
  • Ali, M. (2007) Brick Lane. Black Swan.
  • Ashcroft, B., Griffiths, G., Tiffin, H. (2007). Post-Colonial Studies: the key concepts .2nded. Routledge. Bhabha, H. K. (1994) The location of culture. Routledge.
  • Cormack, A. (2006) Migration and the politics of narrative form: Realism and the postcolonial subject in Brick Lane. Contemporary Literature, 47(4), 695–721. https://www.jstor.org/stable/4489184
  • Hall, S. (1995) Cultural identity and diaspora. In P. Williams & L. Chrisman (Eds.), Colonial discourse and postcolonial theory (pp. [page range]). Harvester Wheatsheaf.
  • Hiddleston, J. (2005) Shapes and shadows: (Un)veiling the immigrant in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane. The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 40(1), [567-569].
  • Santesso, E. (2013) Disorientation: Muslim identity in contemporary Anglophone literature. Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Southmayd, S. (2015) Diasporic mobility and identity in flux in V. S. Naipaul’s The Mimic Men and Monica Ali’s Brick Lane. In S. R. Mehta (Ed.), Exploring gender in the literature of the Indian diaspora (pp. 60-83). Cambridge Scholars Publisher.
  • Güven, F. (2024). Liminal margins and the appropriation of the inherited codes and imposed patterns in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s The Last Gift. Journal of Narrative and Language Studies, 12 (26), pp. 391-405.
  • Güven, F. and Aldemir, N. (2025 )Hybridity, identity, and diaspora in Zadie Smith’s White Teeth. (2025). Journal of Nusantara Studies (JONUS), 10(1), 94- 113. https://doi.org/10.24200/jonus.vol10iss1pp94-113
  • Upstone, S. (2007) Same old, same old. Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 43(3).
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Ayrıntılar

Birincil Dil İngilizce
Konular İngiliz ve İrlanda Dili, Edebiyatı ve Kültürü
Bölüm Araştırma Makaleleri
Yazarlar

Fikret Güven 0000-0002-9313-7166

Muhammed Ejder 0009-0007-8739-4709

Erken Görünüm Tarihi 26 Ekim 2025
Yayımlanma Tarihi 29 Ekim 2025
Gönderilme Tarihi 1 Mayıs 2025
Kabul Tarihi 16 Haziran 2025
Yayımlandığı Sayı Yıl 2025 Sayı: 30

Kaynak Göster

APA Güven, F., & Ejder, M. (2025). HYBRIDIZATION, MIMICRY, AND IDENTITY FORMATION IN MONICA ALI’S BRICK LANE. Bingöl Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi(30), 533-546. https://doi.org/10.29029/busbed.1689018