The Lost Child by Caryl Philips, an adaptation of Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte based on the Feminism and Postcolonialism Approach

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Abstract: This study aims to explore features of two literary schools, including feminism and postcolonialism in The Lost Child by Caryl Philips, an adaptation of Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte. To this aim, the thesis analyzes the novel to seek elements of feminism and postcolonialism. At the heart of this text, multiple stories lead from the time of post-war Britain to the nineteenth-century Yorkshire setting of Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights, which is reworked imaginatively. In The Lost Child, Phillips shows the social and cultural problems of immigrants in British society in the postcolonial era. In other words, to connect the past and the present of British social history, Caryl Phillips uses the archetype (Wuthering Heights) as a framework to link literary representation to social reality. In doing so, He explores acknowledges the concepts of social and patriarchal norms in British society, while social, cultural, economic, and political inequalities such as colonialism, class, and race affect the female personality, and women are considered subordinate in a patriarchal society. Keywords: The Lost Child, Wuthering Heights, Caryl Philips, Feminism, postcolonialism