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| Abstract : Perpustakaan Tuanku Bainun |
| The objective of this research was to analyze the feeling of double consciousness by Iraqi individuals who live in diaspora as reflected in post-2003 selected Iraqi novels. The study applied the theory of double consciousness by W.E.B. Du Bois within the context of internal and external diasporic settings and attempted to determine how the hybrid identities were revealed in the selected texts. The study also defined the duality in the subaltern characters and the way they were treated in the selected post-2003 Iraqi novels. The study applied the theory of double consciousness within the umbrella theory of postcolonialism with its relevant themes of diaspora, hybridism, and the subaltern as reproducing contexts. The findings reveal the fact of the recurrent duality of selves of the diasporic characters during their short return to their homelands or during their internal displacement. In addition, the characters fail to be reconciled with the identity of the host land while simultaneously failing to have a sense of belonging to their homelands. Being treated as second-class citizens and due to the fearful and uneven co-existence, the subalterns endure the state of double consciousness. As conclusion, the study reveals the psychical dilemma of the protagonists in the internal and external settings with an unresolved sense of double consciousness. The implication indicates that double consciousness has become the prevailing case for the referred Iraqi diasporas. The persistent occurrence of in-betweenness in postcolonial Iraqi society is analogous to what Du Bois has referred to regarding the feeling of warring self of those living in diaspora. |
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