الفهرس 
IntroductionOnly 14 pages are availabe for public view
 |  | from | 140 |  |  |
| | | from | 140 | | |
Abstract
This thesis focuses on the experiences of migration in the context of Black-British literature. It seeks to investigate the process of change and adaptation that are experienced by immigrants, who migrate from Jamaica and Bangladesh to Britain. In the three Black-British novels chosen for analysis, Andrea Levy’s Fruit of the Lemon (1999), Zadie Smith’s White Teeth (2000), and Monica Ali’s Brick Lane (2003), there is a great focus on what happens to individuals who were brought up in one cultural environment, namely Jamaica or Bangladesh, when they try to re-establish their lives in another environment, namely London. Using the psychological acculturation and adaptation approach, the phenomenon of migration is examined in two perspectives. On the one hand, migration has been investigated as a life-event stressor, and on the other hand as a significant opportunity for selffdiscovery, self-realisation, identity formation, and psychological integration into a new culture. The characters analysed in these novels draw largely on psychological understanding of acculturation, identity, and adaptation. But because this thesis is a literary study, it seeks to extract as much information as possible from the narratives. Thus, the study made in this thesis is a literary one, with no ambition to make an all-inclusive psychological analysis.