A postcolonial reading of Elif Shafak's honor and Daniel Benyamin's goat day

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The paper offers insight into Daniel Benjamin's 2008 novel "Goat Days" and Elif Shafak's 2011 novel "Honor.

" The study examines postcolonial theory as an intellectual framework, based on the perspectives of notable theorists such as Gayatri Spivak and Homi Bhaba.

The study focuses on key terms in postcolonial theory, such as sublaternity, unhomeliness, and identity, providing a brief description of each.

Spivak's concept of subalternity is applied to both works, demonstrating that the characters in both novels are social minorities who have been denied basic rights in their respective societies.

Seeking a better life and a brighter future for their families, they immigrated to more developed cultures.

They encounter several challenges, the most significant of which is assimilating into the new culture, whose ideals differ from the ones upon which they were raised.

Bhaba's concept of unhomeliness is used to demonstrate how these personalities could not fully integrate into the new cultures.

As a result, they are experiencing an identity