A Postcolonial Reading of Novuya Tshuma's House of Stone
The current paper attempts to investigate postcolonial concepts in Zimbabwean writer, Novuya Tshuma’s debut novel, House of Stone (2018). The present study is built on the theoretical framework of Homi K. Bhabha who, in his, collected writings titled The Location of Culture (1994) mentioned key elements of postcolonial criticism like an identity crisis, othering, mimicry and hybridity. The textual analysis method has been applied to analyse the relevant text objectively. Findings suggest that the above postcolonial concepts like an identity crisis, othering/otherness, mimicry and hybridity are vividly available and have been objectively analyzed. Moreover, the novelist uses an ample amount of figure of speech (simile, metaphor, personification and oxymoron) to carry forward the story in a literary manner. In addition to the above aspects, the concept of feminism is found in an African setting, the character of Thandi promotes feminism through her words and action.
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Colonial Discourse, Postcolonialism, Othering, Hyberdity, Cultural Hegemony
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(1) Muhammad Hassan Shaikh
Assistant Professor, Institute of English Language & Literature, Shah Abdul Latif University, Khairpur, Sindh, Pakistan.
(2) Ajab Ali Lashari
Lecturer, Department of Education, Sindh Madressatul Islam University, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.
(3) Shah Muhammad Farooq Rashdi
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Shah Abdul Latif University, Khairpur, Sindh, Pakistan.
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APA : Shaikh, M. H., Lashari, A. A., & Rashdi, S. M. F. (2023). A Postcolonial Reading of Novuya Tshuma's House of Stone. Global Language Review, VIII(I), 123-130. https://doi.org/10.31703/glr.2023(VIII-I).12
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CHICAGO : Shaikh, Muhammad Hassan, Ajab Ali Lashari, and Shah Muhammad Farooq Rashdi. 2023. "A Postcolonial Reading of Novuya Tshuma's House of Stone." Global Language Review, VIII (I): 123-130 doi: 10.31703/glr.2023(VIII-I).12
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HARVARD : SHAIKH, M. H., LASHARI, A. A. & RASHDI, S. M. F. 2023. A Postcolonial Reading of Novuya Tshuma's House of Stone. Global Language Review, VIII, 123-130.
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MHRA : Shaikh, Muhammad Hassan, Ajab Ali Lashari, and Shah Muhammad Farooq Rashdi. 2023. "A Postcolonial Reading of Novuya Tshuma's House of Stone." Global Language Review, VIII: 123-130
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MLA : Shaikh, Muhammad Hassan, Ajab Ali Lashari, and Shah Muhammad Farooq Rashdi. "A Postcolonial Reading of Novuya Tshuma's House of Stone." Global Language Review, VIII.I (2023): 123-130 Print.
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OXFORD : Shaikh, Muhammad Hassan, Lashari, Ajab Ali, and Rashdi, Shah Muhammad Farooq (2023), "A Postcolonial Reading of Novuya Tshuma's House of Stone", Global Language Review, VIII (I), 123-130
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TURABIAN : Shaikh, Muhammad Hassan, Ajab Ali Lashari, and Shah Muhammad Farooq Rashdi. "A Postcolonial Reading of Novuya Tshuma's House of Stone." Global Language Review VIII, no. I (2023): 123-130. https://doi.org/10.31703/glr.2023(VIII-I).12