Literary Cartographic Mapping and Identity of Displacement in Toibin’s Brooklyn: Symptoms and Diagnosis | ||
| مجلة بحوث کلية الآداب . جامعة المنوفية | ||
| Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 17 July 2025 | ||
| Document Type: المقالة الأصلية | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/sjam.2025.401031.2675 | ||
| Author | ||
| مصطفى عبدالنبي عبدالغني محمد السيد* | ||
| قسم اللغة الانجليزية، كلية الاداب، جامعة المنوفية | ||
| Abstract | ||
| This paper aim is to apply the geo-critical theory and its notion of literary cartography to Colm Tóibín’s Brooklyn to study how spatial movement affects identity and reconstruct it in a state of in-betweenness. Eilis’ movement between Enniscorthy and Brooklyn causes her spatial perceptions to shift from familiar to strange and back again while she experiences internal disorientation. The analysis demonstrates how Eilis's silent nature combined with her passive behavior and lack of control over her life deepens her identity crisis because space continuously affects her mental processes, physical actions, and personal identity. Mapping her own narrative in such a way increases the sense of ambiguity that connects her character with the postmodern dilemma. Eilis becomes a victim swaying between "the perceived" and "the conceived" spaces, which makes her own "lived space" an interesting domain to be analyzed geo-critically. Her final answer “I don’t know” anticipates that the conflict lying deeply inside herself never ends. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Geo-criticism; Literary Cartography; Identity Confusion; Contested Spaces | ||
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