| Abstract [eng] |
This master thesis investigates the manifestation of honour culture depicted in Scandinavian fiction. The aim is to find out how girls are represented in honour culture (from the girls perspective), what the phenomenon of honour culture demonstrates about family, gender and society and what it reveals about the relationship between two cultures (Scandinavian and Middle Eastern). The study is based on postcolonial theories such as Edward Said’s “orientalism”, Homi Bhabha’s “hybridity”, and “third space”,, as well as postcolonial feminists Gayatri Spivak and Haideh Moghissi’s theories, it also includes Achille Mbembe’s theoretical concept of “necropolitics”. In order to examine the phenomenon, the narratological analysis of Gérard Genette is applied in the literary work, and the narratological analysis of the film by David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson is used in the audiovisual works. This study shows that the beliefs of the honour culture are deeply rooted in migrant families, nevertheless one successful hybrid identity’s integration into both cultures is also identified, just without practicing aggressive behavior or violence in the family towards the girl. In the second case, the combination of the unreflected hybridity of the main character and the honour as a core value in the family leads to the girl’s escape from her relatives’ home, as the only way to free herself from the necropolitical system. In the third case, the hybridity of the girl’s identity contributes to the empowerment of the voice, but because of the brutal necropolitical power in the family, the character is afraid to escape. It has turned out that the victims of the honour culture in the Scandinavian fiction become regardless of gender or social status, because it depends on how many discussions and influence the individual has experienced at the intersection of two cultures or in the third space. In some cases, the suffering of homelessness of migrant parents or daughters of migrant parents is identified, which occurs differently while manifestation of reorientalism is depicted in all three analyzed works, for example, loneliness is attributed to Scandinavian society as a negative description and as the worst consequence of violating the rules of the honour culture. However, the analysis shows that sometimes the dichotomy of “us” and “them” disappears, because a new or hybrid identity enables an individual to impartially rethink the functioning of two cultures in the same space, including the Scandinavians as well. |
