Postcolonial critics repurposed Freud’s uncanny as a product of migration’s displacement

Evidence

Bhabha, for whom it is produced in the process of displacement that is characteristic of migration. Sigmund Freud’s original formulation emphasizes the centrality of foreign-ness and familiarity in the production of the uncanny. He says, “The uncanny [the ‘unhomely’] is what was once familiar [‘homely’].” — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 346

Categorization

• DEFINE: Supplies the precise Bhabha/ Freud formulation — ‘uncanny as the homely made unhomely by displacement’ — a transferable critical term for the reader’s two-novel analysis.