e-ISSN 2231-8542
ISSN 1511-3701
Roghayeh Farsi
Pertanika Journal of Tropical Agricultural Science, Volume 28, Issue 1, March 2020
Keywords: Adiga, Ishiguro, Jung, postcolonial, servitude, shadow projection
Published on: 19 March 2020
This study compares shadow projection in two postcolonial novels: Adigas The white tiger (2008) and Ishiguros The remains of the day (1989). It takes these autobiographies as narratives of shadow and investigates how each protagonist projects his shadow in his narrative of servitude. The study draws on Carl Jungs view of shadow and shadow projection and holds an analytic and comparative methodology. The analysis focuses on the influential forces that shape each protagonists shadow, while the comparison reveals psychosocial differences between them. The study tracks a line of psychological continuation between the two novels and concludes with psychological similarities that link the protagonists cross-culturally. Finally, it is concluded the detection of shadow projection is beneficial to character analysis, but it falls short at addressing the rhetoric- linguistic aspects of each novel.
ISSN 1511-3701
e-ISSN 2231-8542