Unhomeliness, Self-Estrangement, and Labefaction in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Gravel Hearth

Awarded with the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021, Gurnah’s Gravel Heart can be considered as a bildungsroman, which delineates repercussions of colonialism on individuals once colonized societies. It tells story growing young boy who both psychologically and geographically becomes estranged from his self hometown due to impacts outcomes that colonial powers have left country. Through narrating some details era, having started Zanzibar 1890, novel mainly focuses consequences family experience after Revolution 1963. this novel, Gurnah gives message colonization has not ended but continues another form called cultural colonization. In respect, underlining societal labefaction emerged period instilled feelings hopelessness estrangements psyches societies, article tries reveal through highlighting protagonist Salim’s experiences self-estrangement.