Politics of Indigenization in Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire

Abstract

  The study exhibits the Politics of Indigenization in Kamila Shamsie’s novel Home Fire.  It explores the traces of Greek culture in the contemporary society. It also unearths that how the culture affects the role of gender and religion. For textual analysis, the study takes insight from Linda Hutcheon’s Theory of Adaptation. Transcultural adaptation and Indigenization are serving as a tool to explore the study. In this research the geographical changes and its effect upon the characters has been discussed thoroughly. The study aims to explore the importance of old text with reference to present day society. In indigenization the adapter brings the issues into the spotlight.  The researcher scrutinizes into the lives and actions of characters with reference to gender. The data is collected after the study of facts, events and incidents in the novel Home Fire as well as from the play Antigone. The theory of Adaptation gives a view that there is a difference between original text and adapted text. So, in this study the difference has been sorted out. Home Fire is adapted as a new form of Antigone. The researcher has found out the similarities and difference from the Greek to the South Asian culture.