Postcolonial discourse in Andrea Levy's novels

Within the context of postcolonial discourse analysis, the purpose of this thesis is not only to reveal the effects of postcolonial conditions on Caribbean and British societies in Andrea Levy's novels but also to investigate the terminology associated with these various processes. Throughout her life, Levy has produced works about the post-colonial processes, the transformations in the identities and cultures of the indigenous Caribbean people and the effects on their social life. In her novels, Levy depicts the migration of Caribbean people to Britain, whose lives have been changed and oppressed due to colonialism. As the number of migrants increase, Caribbeans have been subjected to cultural issues, identity crises, prejudices, discrimination, and racism within British society. The hybrid characters who vacillate between cultures in limbo reflect the postcolonial representations and colonialist perception in the novels. Very few critics have addressed to this aspect of Levy's works, which blends tragedies that are not included in the official history of colonialism, research and compilations of his family origins, with auto-fiction technique. It is aimed to contribute to the literature by analysing all of Levy's novels, which can be accepted as an annotation on official history, in a single study under the title of postcolonial discourse analysis. Discourse analysis of the novels has been made through Homi. K. Bhabha's theories and concepts such as identity, third space, hybridity, mimicry, displacement, unhomeliness, and otherization.