Literary Representations of East-European Labour Migrants in Marina Lewycka’s Strawberry Fields

Яковенко, Ірина Василівна (2022) Literary Representations of East-European Labour Migrants in Marina Lewycka’s Strawberry Fields Колективна (три і більше авторів). Inny/inność we współczesnej literaturze europejskiej: Monograph. Siedlce: Uniwersytet Przyrodniczo-Humanistyczny w Siedlcach, Poland, Siedlce.

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Abstract

Regarding the immigrant as the ethnic, cultural and social Other, the paper rethinks Marina Lewycka’s Strawberry Fields as the transnational novel, and the work of postcolonial literature. In the comic and grotesque book, the contemporary British writer foregrounds the problem of economic migration, exploitation, human trafficking, meager working conditions, and the deficient status of labour force from East-European countries, Africa and Asia. As well as portraying the multicultural diversity of migrant workers, Marina Lewycka reconstructs the neocolonial realities, such as utilizing labour resources of the post-socialist East European countries to accumulate wealth by Western capitalism, which leads to the creation of the dehumanized army of „the economic subalterns” deprived of voice and agency. The research focuses on the analysis of the labour migrants’ perception of Britain, which ranges from idealization to disillusionment, and the opposite vector – the muteness of the host country towards the presence of the marginalised and extraneous groups in the UK society.

Item Type: Monograph (Колективна (три і більше авторів))
Uncontrolled Keywords: postcolonialism; neocolonialism; labour migrants; transnational novel; the Other; Marina Lewycka; Strawberry Fields (Two Caravans)
Subjects: Це архівна тематика Київського університету імені Бориса Грінченка > Монографії > Видані за кордоном (окрім країн СНД)
Divisions: Це архівні підрозділи Київського університету імені Бориса Грінченка > Факультет романо-германської філології > Кафедра лінгвістики та перекладу
Depositing User: Ірина Василівна Яковенко
Date Deposited: 28 Nov 2023 12:14
Last Modified: 28 Nov 2023 12:14
URI: https://elibrary.kubg.edu.ua/id/eprint/47465

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