Zadie Smith tarafından yazılan Dans Zamanı adlı romanda medyanın sömürge sonrası bağlam içerisinde kişiliğe etkisi

As a novel, Zadie Smith‟s Swing Time invites all kinds of people to assess the very vocabulary which one might speak of human experiences. The book reflects the Formation of Personality, which is being the greatest component in Bildungsroman, in quite an impeccable manner with the perspective of postmodern and postcolonial period and related theories. Zadie Smith‟s second major preoccupation confronts with the reader with regards to the concept of relativity. The novel provides the reader with the process of development of the character in such an extraordinary way that the reader receives a sensation that nothing is represented in the borders of solid and invariable form of depiction and this allows the possibility of stretching borders even more. Therefore, such qualities as Hybridity, Split of Identity or Mimicry that some of the characters share in common as well as encapsulating the general view of postcolonial period, bring them all the sensation of placelessness along with it. This feeling of homelessness does not only cause characters to fight a battle within their psychic realms and minds but at the same time directs reader such a question that „‟Given who we are, who we are told that we are not or who we imagine who we might become, how do we find our way back home where we belong?‟‟ This question, in case it is analyzed in its own resolution, specifies in a crystal clear the reasons of the decisions that the characters made in the novel along with concentrating on where exactly these decisions have led them and whether these journeys that they take have truly led them to a place where they belong. And the author aimed to offer this study with the intention of disclosing all mentioned aspects of the characters in the novel Key Words: Bildungsroman, Hybridity, Mimicry, Zadie Smith, Postcolonialism, Postmodernism