چكيده
By the onset of the new millennium which is to be better called the era of emigration or cultural exchange, the question of home becomes a significant matter not in the literary texts but in all discourses relating to man’s hegemonic life. From this perspective, the matter of home problematizes all) post(colonial subjects and simultaneously it will question all the individuals psychologically. Therefore, the fact that this ‘home is nowhere’ prevails all) post (colonial and sociological texts. Mainly, all the (post)colonial works, whether consciously or unconsciously, deal with the matter of place with an emphasis upon the non-conception motif of home. Regarding this point, Homi K. Bhabha has developed a number of the field’s ‘neologism’ and key concepts from which the problematic notion of ‘unhomeliness’ deals with the subject matter of this study. Accordingly, the researcher in this thesis endeavors to examine Bhabhaesque notion of unhomeliness in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun (2006). According to Homi Bhabha, the sense of ‘unhomeliness’ is a traumatic gaze into the past which is no longer attainable. He believes that the feeling of unhomeliness is bound up extensively to the idea of place and time; in another words, he claims that hegemonic forces of society in the time of (post)colonialism make the subjects to be unhomed or to feel the sense of unhomeliness. This thesis will argue how unhomeliness shapes through self’s confrontation of psyche with the real sense of displacement. Referring to Homi Bhabha’s notion of unhomeliness, it investigates that Half of a Yellow Sun deals with the emotional trauma of some (post)colonial refugees who, due to a brutal Civil War, are geographically and mentally distant from their roots and experience the sense of unhomeliness. The characters in Half of a Yellow Sun are in danger of fragmenting between the historical coziness of living in their own lands before the outbreak of the War and the harshness of their displacement after it. Not only during the War but also in the peacetime they look for a shelter. As it was stated, (post)colonialism and its outcomes creates many psychological problems from which the matter of home, or to Bhabha’s terms unhomeliness would be the objective of this study. In Adichie’s work, the characters, in order to overcome their sense of unhomeliness, exploit many strategies. One reminds the place of his residence, one starts writing, another with a lot of parties and the others with sexual relationship. But their permanent ability to overcome this sense is difficult and almost impossible
