In the Postcolonial Mindscape of Stieg Larsson’s The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest: An Immigrant’s Story
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This study aims to investigate the colonialist ideology displayed against Idris Ghidi, an Iraqi immigrant in Stieg Larsson’s The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest, and to examine the roles of this marginalized character in the subversion of the colonialist domination in the novel. The concept of mindscape and the critical theory of postcolonialism are used to analyze both the colonialist and anti-colonialist ideologies in the storyline involving Ghidi. It is revealed that Ghidi’s mindscape prevents him from falling prey to the colonized consciousness that could subject him to a negative self-image and that in spite of his status as a subaltern which greatly limits his socioeconomic opportunities, he puts on a psychological resistance and contributes to the eventual overthrow of a corrupt ruling body in the novel.
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