The Unstable Nature of Dominant-Subordinate Relation

Postcolonial Study Towards Thomas King’s 'The Colour of Walls'

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ID22057877
AuthorsAlireza Sardari (Payame Noor University, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume10
Issue1
Pages77-84
Publication date2021-04-23
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueRainbow Journal of Literature Linguistics and Cultural Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2252-6323 • E-ISSN: 2721-4540
PublisherUniversitas Negeri Semarang (PUBLISHER • ID)
DOI10.15294/rainbow.v10i1.46261
OpenAlexW3168843758
LanguageEN
References cited13

Aboriginal/Indigenous peoples, cultures and works of literature (in the broadest sense) play a crucial role in the continuous growth of world literary and cultural studies. Indigenous writers advocate indigenous rights and address their concerns in works of fiction and non-fiction. Focusing on the correlation between the dominant (center) and the subordinate (margin) in Thomas King’s The Colour of Walls (2013), the present paper aims to specifically investigate the dominant-subordinate interplay in the colonial discourse. So as to elucidate this labyrinthine network of relationships, Homi Bhabha’s critical concept of hybridity is employed throughout the analysis process. The results indicate the unstable nature of dominant-subordinate dichotomy in the story, where power-based relationships are subject to constant change. Accordingly, this process of cultural struggle provides a site for the subordinate to change their marginal position and to resist the dominant’s influence; ultimately, this process assists the subordinate to reclaim their own independent identity

Aesthetics · Art · Colonialism · Hybridity · Indigenous · Political science · Sociology · Anthropology · Law · Literary Theory and Cultural Hermeneutics · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies

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