The Many Voices of Home Fire

Abstract

This study analyzes the multiple narrative point of views of Kamila Shamsie's Home Fire, a modern retelling of Antigone that deals with post-9/11 racism in Britain. Expanding on the topics of internal and external racism experienced by each character, we introduce the theory of re-orientalism, originally proposed by Lau and Mendes, and consider how each perspective reflects this concept. Further, this study highlights how different point of views change the way the reader understands the story.

This essay won the 2023 Intersectional Social Justice Essay Prize (1st year category)