• ijeab whatsapp
  • Track Your Paper
  • Join Us as a Reviewer

ISSN: 2456-7620

Impact Factor: 5.96

Visualizing the “Shadow” and the “Ghost”: Re-evaluating J.M Coetzee’s Foe through the lens of Psychoanalysis and Postcolonialism

Vol-8,Issue-4,July - August 2023

Author: Shibangi Chakraborty

Keywords: Colonial, History, Identity, Postcolonialism, Psychological.

Abstract: The paper is mainly based on the study of colonial and psychological oppression, which can make someone totally devoid of his/her identity, thought, history, speech, desires and how these aspects are represented vaguely or rather ambivalently through different characters of the novel. It wants to speculate the boundaries between the past and present, the mental anxiety, the sense of awe and identity crisis of a black slave. This also marks a showcase of reversal of role as colonizer which is represented by two of the characters in the novel, a woman and a white man who is devoid of his own identity. The novel is connected with four of the characters mainly. The present study wants to get a look on those characters’ psychology as well as it gives a conception of how Postcolonialism is deeply rooted in psychological aspects.

Article Info: Received: 19 Jul 2023; Received in revised form: 08 Aug 2023; Accepted: 15 Aug 2023; Available online: 21 Aug 2023

ijeab doi crossrefDOI: 10.22161/ijels.84.32

Total View: 309 Downloads: 16 Page No: 197-201 Download Cover Page