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İngiliz Dili ve Edebiyatı Bölümü Tezleri

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    A study of the psychology of migrant identities and the psychoanalytic roots of non-belonging in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane
    (2010) Çakmaktepe, Müzeher
    Monica Ali’s novel, Brick Lane (2003) has become the subject of a critical controversy concerning Ali’s depiction of a migrant diaspora living in London. Ali has been criticized for writing about a community she does not truly belong to or understand. The novel has therefore been judged in terms of its integrity as a post-colonial text. However, this thesis will demonstrate that rather than attempting to construct a postcolonial critique of migrant experience the novel constructs a detailed exploration of the psychological responses of particular individuals to the traumas of migration and marginalization, alongside an investigation of the psychological roots of the current conflicts between different ethnic and religious groups. The thesis represents an interdisciplinary study, combining a detailed reading of Brick Lane with recent psychoanalytic analyses of personality development and the effects of geographical displacement and migration on the individual and collective psyche. The introduction will present a brief discussion of recent literary and political debates concerning Brick Lane. The rest of the thesis will analyze the novel through the ideas of three contemporary psychoanalytic theorists. In Chapter 1, Salman Akhtar’s work on the psychological causes and consequences of migration will be used to interpret Ali’s depiction of the characters’ complex and diverse responses to their situations. In Chapter 2, Vamık Volkan’s exploration of the psychological factors behind the identification of enemies and allies in collective thinking will be brought to bear on the novel’s treatment of group conflict. Chapter 3 presents an analysis of the major characters through the work of another recent theorist, J. F. Masterson, whose studies of the roots and consequences of disorders of the self have widened the field of theories of personality to include ways in which unresolved hidden conflicts, especially in childhood, may manifest themselves as disorders of the self in later life. In uncovering the connections between the psychological and political issues raised in the novel, the thesis will offer an original contribution to the debate concerning Brick Lane’s status in what has been termed the “new English literature.”