Mapping the Unhomely in Edna O’Brien’s <i>The Little Red Chairs</i>

Abstract Sigmund Freud elaborates the conceptualization of unhomely (uncanny) from a psychoanalytical perspective in his 1919 essay “Das Unheimliche.” Thereafter, Martin Heidegger, Being and Time, probes idea philosophical aspect, asserting that is an existential–ontological state human existence; subsequently, Homi K. Bhabha has identified political significance concept. In her 2015 fiction The Little Red Chairs, based on war crimes Bosnian Serb leader, Edna O’Brien, as literary cartographer, maps appraises historical figures events spaces imaginative real. novel powerfully exemplifies theorization illuminates Judith Butler’s theories precariousness interdependency through delineation displacement, violence, characters’ psychological movements.