Postcolonial literature

After-effects, or continuation, of ideologies and discourses of imperialism, domination and repression, value systems (e.g. the domination of western values and the delegitimization of non-Western values); • After-effects of colonialism on the daily lived experiences of participants; • Regard in which peoples in post-colonial societies are held; • Valorization of multiple voices and heterogeneity in post-colonial societies; • Resistance to marginalization of groups within postcolonial societies; • Construction of identities in a post-colonial world. • From Emmanuel N. Obiechina (Culture, Tradition and Society in the West African Novel 1975) and Mohamadou Kane (Roman africain et Tradition 1982) to Abiola Irele ("The African Imagination" 1990).

Kunapipi, 1987

As George Lamming once remarked, over three quarters of the contemporary world has been directly and profoundly affected by imperialism and colonialism. Although it is clear just how profound an effect this has had on the social and political structures of the twentieth century and on the relations which exist between nations in our age, it has until recently been less clear how profoundly this has influenced the perceptive frameworks of the majority of people alive now. The day to day realities of colonized peoples were in large part generated for them by the impact of European discourses. But the contemporary art, philosophies and literature produced by post-colonial societies are not simply continuations or adaptations of European models. The processes of artistic and literary colonization have involved a radical dis/mantling of European codes and a post-colonial subversion and appropriation of the dominant European discourses. This has frequently been accompanied by the demand for an entirely new or wholly recovered 'reality', free of all colonial taint. Given the nature of the relationship between colonizer and colonized, with its pandemic brutalities and its cultural denigration, such a demand is desirable and inevitable. But as the contradictions inherent in a project such as Chinweizu, Jemie and Madubuike's The Decolonization of African Literature demonstrate,' such pre-colonial cultural purity can never be fully recovered.

Journal of World Literature, 2020

Part two of the special issue of World Literature and Postcolonial Studies comes out during extraordinary times. The world is fighting a global pandemic. "I can't breathe" and "Black Lives Matter" are no longer expressions that are meaningful only in America. Rather, they have become calls to unite the world against bigotry, racism, and injustice. Meanwhile, Covid-19 has exposed racial, class, and economic inequalities all around the world. If in America, the global pandemic re-emphasized the failing healthcare system, in India it brought forth the biggest movement of people from urban centers to rural communities. Indeed, the migrant crisis in India could only be compared with the plight and tragedy of people during the 1947 partition, many of whom walked for thousands of miles to reach "home." Though the essays published in this special issue were selected before the global pandemic, the revisions and the preparation of the manuscript took place at a time when events were canceled, air and train travel was impossible, and countries were under lockdown. One cannot imagine bringing out this special issue, which has contributions of authors residing in different parts of the world, working on, to name a few, Korean, Australian, Maghrebi, Syrian, Welsh literatures, had the world not been connected through the circulatory network of the internet. Not surprisingly, then, the co-editors see the theme of circulation and movement running through the essays collected here. Often world literature is thought in simple terms as a literature in translation, circulating and leaping across national boundaries only in a handful of languages. Postcolonial literature, on the other hand, is usually assumed to be writing back to a colonial center and circulating in colonizer's languages. Yet both views shouldn't stray too far from actual realities on the ground. A study of literature in translation

ARIEL: A Review of International English …, 2003

Post-colonial writers can play a key role in bringing unity among the people. Colonised people are emerging out of the slavery and inhuman behaviour that the colonisers had towards them; so the writers from these nations can encourage them and affirm them with a good and bright future by promoting unity. The writes can also remind them of their glorious history and the wonderful life they had before the colonisation and thereby help them to remove the inferiority complex infused by the colonisers. This work is an attempt to analyse how a change can be brought about by elucidating the conditions that colonised had to go through based on Ngugi wa Thiong'o The Writer in Changing the Society.

Postcolonial African literature emerged as a reaction to colonialism as theory and practice. It comes under the banner of postcolonialism-a theory of oppositionality that encapsulates the totality of practices which characterize the third world nations, especially in Africa, from the inception of colonialism to the present day. The main thrust of the paper is to examine the thematic changes associated with the development of African literature. To do this, the definitional problem with postcolonialism is resolved to have an operational definition. Foundational issues in postcolonialism are considered. These issues-history, universalism and difference, and language-recur in every phase of postcolonial African literature. It is ascertained that history has been a site for racial tension. The European ethnocentric concept insists that Africans have no history or culture, while Africans are subverting the European centralist notion of history and re-inscribing African history. European universalism suggests that European culture is the standard culture, while postcolonial writers insist on pluralism of culture, emphasizing the beauty and virility of African culture. Apart from the use of African languages in writing, postcolonial writers are domesticating the European languages to express African experience. The paper analyses the thematic changes in postcolonial African literature which are found to be dictated by the prevailing circumstances during each phase. The paper concludes with suggestions on how to make postcolonial African literature more effective and responsive for the good of Africans and Africa.

Post-colonialism implies an examination of the impact and continuing legacy of the European conquest of non-European lands and peoples. The prefix 'post' semantically means 'after', whilst in the post-colonial literature context it refers to 'indigenous literature after colonisation began'. West African writers produce a text classified as post-colonial. The post-colonial analysis involved the reclamation of pre-colonial forms of history and culture and the construction of national identity based on specific, local knowledge and histories. European scholars as Meinhof revealed how far African oral literature amended the blurring picture about the 'black man' provided by the colonists to their people at home. Post-colonial writing engendered two literary discourses: A. The colonial-discourse that conforms to the European image of Africa like Alan Paton's books. B. The anti-colonial discourse that mixes the historical novel and the social /protest novel including the works of Achebe, Ngugy and Soyinka. The post-colonial terms of " Orientalism " linked to the peoples in the Far East, and " Africanism " to deal with Africans function on similar premises. Both constitute the Europeans' knowledge of others, i.e. (forming an image of others than the Westerners) for the sake of political domination over peoples in the Far East and Africa.

The words 'Postcolonial' and 'Postcolonialism' are often used when we talk about the countries, states etc. that have gone through the bitter period of colonialism and imperialism. Colonialism, as we know, is the process of subjugating the weaker and less powerful country by the more powerful and dominating one. Writers from the erstwhile colonies like Africa,

nternational Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Translation, 2022

Postcolonialism revolves around studying the effects of colonialism on cultures and discloses how European nations controlled "Third World" cultures and how the latter resisted cunning encroachments. It endeavors to decolonize postcolonial states from the political conditions to the cultural ones, as it contests the contemporary legacies of historical colonialism so as to break the present imbalances of power. Postcolonialism also seeks to criticize contemporary colonial ways by seeking powerful substantial change in postcolonial nations while celebrating the lost history of resistance as well. The purpose of this research study is to define postcolonialism and show how postcolonial literary theory is applied to examine texts produced by both the colonized and the colonizing forces. Also, it endeavors to contribute to the body of postcolonial literature and celebrate the lost cultural heritage of the colonized. To meet this end, this research investigation adopts an exploratory research design and uses searching and screening tools to examine, analyze and synthesize relevant first and secondary sources. The findings indicated that postcolonial literary theories, in their multidimensional and multidisciplinary nature, have proven practically useful in scrutinizing western literature, celebrating literary works by the colonized subaltern through giving voice to the tamed, stifled, and disdained intellectuals whose works disclose the truth behind the civilizing mission of colonialism which was nothing but a series of ideas and practices used to legitimize the establishment of overseas colonies to subject people. The results of this research study are significant in the way that they would not only enrich and further advance the existing canon of postcolonial literature but would also raise awareness of everyone investigating the power dynamics of the colonizer and the colonized. In this respect, it is therefore hoped that our dissertation deepens greater understanding and inspires respect, honor, and rehabilitation for the colonized.

This paper aims at studying briefly how and when colonialism came into being and how it flourished and took shape into Post-colonialism, followed by its visible impressions in literature. Post-colonialism, if etymologically defined, is 'after colonialism', basically, the aftermaths of colonialism.