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Ambivalence, Alienation, and Subalternity: Reading Naipaul’s A Bend in the River through Bhabha, Fanon, and Spivak

Cilt: 9 Sayı: 2 27 Ekim 2025
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Ambivalence, Alienation, and Subalternity: Reading Naipaul’s A Bend in the River through Bhabha, Fanon, and Spivak

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This study examines V. S. Naipaul’s A Bend in the River (1979) from a postcolonial perspective, using the terminologies raised by Homi K. Bhabha, Frantz Fanon, and Gayatri C. Spivak. Considering so far controversial view of the ambivalent postcolonial settings in Africa, the paper analyses Naipaul’s disappointed vision of colonial practice and its complicity in the dissemination of imperial discourse. The study extends Naipaul’s provoking ideas to a platform where contradictions are reexamined through the concepts of mimicry and hybridity to explore how narrative authority represents repetition, ambivalence and parody. Naipul’s characters are lost in the the ‘pitfalls of national consciousness’, and suffer from colonial alienation. The paper argues that A Bend in the River problematizes collapsing psyche, unraveling identity and the burden of colonial legacy through epistemic violence, subaltern conundrum and silenced mediums. The paper shows how the characters pursue reliable mediation and epistemic authority through a narrative of despair rather than a descriptive discourse of postcolonial fragility, colonial trauma, and silenced voices.

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Kaynakça

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Ayrıntılar

Birincil Dil

İngilizce

Konular

Edebi Teori, Karşılaştırmalı ve Ulusötesi Edebiyat

Bölüm

Araştırma Makalesi

Yayımlanma Tarihi

27 Ekim 2025

Gönderilme Tarihi

14 Haziran 2025

Kabul Tarihi

12 Ekim 2025

Yayımlandığı Sayı

Yıl 2025 Cilt: 9 Sayı: 2

Kaynak Göster

APA
Aldemir, N. (2025). Ambivalence, Alienation, and Subalternity: Reading Naipaul’s A Bend in the River through Bhabha, Fanon, and Spivak. Edebi Eleştiri Dergisi, 9(2), 586-599. https://doi.org/10.31465/eeder.1719742
AMA
1.Aldemir N. Ambivalence, Alienation, and Subalternity: Reading Naipaul’s A Bend in the River through Bhabha, Fanon, and Spivak. EEDER. 2025;9(2):586-599. doi:10.31465/eeder.1719742
Chicago
Aldemir, Nimetullah. 2025. “Ambivalence, Alienation, and Subalternity: Reading Naipaul’s A Bend in the River through Bhabha, Fanon, and Spivak”. Edebi Eleştiri Dergisi 9 (2): 586-99. https://doi.org/10.31465/eeder.1719742.
EndNote
Aldemir N (01 Ekim 2025) Ambivalence, Alienation, and Subalternity: Reading Naipaul’s A Bend in the River through Bhabha, Fanon, and Spivak. Edebi Eleştiri Dergisi 9 2 586–599.
IEEE
[1]N. Aldemir, “Ambivalence, Alienation, and Subalternity: Reading Naipaul’s A Bend in the River through Bhabha, Fanon, and Spivak”, EEDER, c. 9, sy 2, ss. 586–599, Eki. 2025, doi: 10.31465/eeder.1719742.
ISNAD
Aldemir, Nimetullah. “Ambivalence, Alienation, and Subalternity: Reading Naipaul’s A Bend in the River through Bhabha, Fanon, and Spivak”. Edebi Eleştiri Dergisi 9/2 (01 Ekim 2025): 586-599. https://doi.org/10.31465/eeder.1719742.
JAMA
1.Aldemir N. Ambivalence, Alienation, and Subalternity: Reading Naipaul’s A Bend in the River through Bhabha, Fanon, and Spivak. EEDER. 2025;9:586–599.
MLA
Aldemir, Nimetullah. “Ambivalence, Alienation, and Subalternity: Reading Naipaul’s A Bend in the River through Bhabha, Fanon, and Spivak”. Edebi Eleştiri Dergisi, c. 9, sy 2, Ekim 2025, ss. 586-99, doi:10.31465/eeder.1719742.
Vancouver
1.Nimetullah Aldemir. Ambivalence, Alienation, and Subalternity: Reading Naipaul’s A Bend in the River through Bhabha, Fanon, and Spivak. EEDER. 01 Ekim 2025;9(2):586-99. doi:10.31465/eeder.1719742

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