Content Details | NUML Online Research Repository

Title Trafficking Humanitarianism: A Postcolonial Feminist Analysis of Selected American Fiction

Author(s) MARIA IREM

Abstract Title: Trafficking Humanitarianism: A Postcolonial Feminist Analysis of Selected American Fiction The present study is conducted to analyze the representation of the sex trade that takes place due to human trafficking and how it gets featured in literary texts by Western writers. This study also targets the White Euro-American males who are shown available to handle the bundle and burdens of brown/ black women while rescuing them or giving them their voices. Spivak’s idea of ‘Can the subaltern speak?’ and ‘Othering’ is added to the study as the source for the theoretical framework applied to the three literary texts: Sold 2006, A Walk Across the Sun 2012, and A Garden of Burning Sand 2013 to understand the concept of voicelessness, marginalization, humanitarian trafficking, and trafficked subalterns. Patricia McCormick and Corban Addison as American writers are writing on behalf of brown/ black women from the global south and portraying White men as their only well- wishers and rescuers. The study is conducted on the three literary texts belonging to the genre of ‘Young Adult Fiction’ and they are being analyzed through the lens of postcolonial feminist theory, Can the Subaltern Speak (1988), Othering (1985) and General Strain Theory (1992) by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and Robert Agnew, respectively. The textual analytical approach is applied to the study to explore the idea of postcolonial feminism when applied to the subaltern trafficked victims. The study concludes with the analysis that brown/ black women living under the pressure of society, patriarchy, and imperial rule also undergo suppression similar to the abuse when involved in the trafficking network by the traffickers. White men are considered a specific agency that is involved actively in the trafficking of humanistic as well as activist roles through which they think they can rescue the trafficked subaltern women

Type Thesis/Dissertation

Faculty Languages

Department English

Language English

Publication Date 2023-11-21

Subject

Publisher

Contributor(s)

Format

Identifier

Source

Relation

Coverage

Rights