Department of English Language and Literature

Permanent URI for this community

https://dspace.univ-msila.dz/handle/123456789/42761

Browse

Browsing Department of English Language and Literature by Subject "Diasporic discourse - Cultural studies – Minorities – Identity"

Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
  • Thumbnail Image
    ItemOpen Access
    The Journey Within: The Formation of Feminine Diasporic Identity in Leila Aboulela’s Bird Summons
    (UNIVERSITE MOHAMED BOUDIAF M'SILA, 2023-06) LARBI Taha, BOUMDOHA Aycha Samah
    The following thesis attempts to dissect the aspect of formulating a new sense of belonging in Leila Aboulela’s Bird Summons (2019). Through the examination of the diasporic discourse, contemporary storytelling for minorities shifts their conscience to be under a state of unhinged existence while identity itself creates a lapse that results in the loss of its subjects. The story takes place in Scotland, where all three main story companions fluctuate in attempting to find a new meaning for their existence in other surroundings. The purpose of visiting the Grave of the first Scottish and British Muslim woman, Evelyn Cobbold, pinpoints the test to unravel their own memories and experiences for the reforging process. Their search for the intertwined sense, harmonizes them once again. The analysis of the story adopts cultural studies as the main approach for its proximity and relevance to the diasporic context. This qualitative research aims to highlight the struggles, in which the diasporic individual faces. Where it leads the individual to trace and reform the point of reference that connects them with their own likeness. Aboulela’s mode of storytelling conveys the presence of identity through a different lens using magical elements and a focal point, which aids in crafting a new presence that grants the potential for a new dawning belonging without mediating the precarious past.