Musarrat Nazmi Assistant Teacher, Barasat Priyanath Balika Vidyalaya, Kolkata. Postcolonial literature is an attempt to undo the discourse imposed by Europe on native countries. This approach involves the production of a counter-discourse designed to resist the continued encroachment of European culture on former colonies. An important aspect of postcolonialism is decolonization. Decolonization is marked by…
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African American and Dalit Autobiography
Shivaji D. Sargar Associate Professor and Head P. G. Dept. of English, Mahatma Phule College, Panvel. (India) Literature is an artistic expression of the relationship between the thoughts and feelings of human mind and the social conditions surrounding it. When some new stream of thoughts and feelings begins to flow continuously with its uniqueness, quality…
Modernity in Tradition Represented in African Literature: Achebe’s Things Fall Apart and No Longer at Ease
Dr. Julia Devardhi & Dr. Deepika Nelson School of Foreign Language Studies Haramaya University Ethiopia-251 Achebe: Let every people bring their gifts to the great festival of the worlds’ cultural harvest and mankind will all be richer for the variety and distinctiveness of the offerings. Introduction Chinua Achebe’s early novels have been popularly received for…
TWO OF A KIND: THEMATIC, IDEOLOGICAL AND AESTHETIC CONVERGENCES IN AMERICAN AND AFRICAN LITERATURES
Ayo Kehinde Department of English University of Ibadan. In her inaugural lecture entitled The Nature and Functions of Literature: The Comparatist’s Perspective, Aduke Adebayo (2010) convincingly enunciates and exemplifies the tenets and utilitarian functions of Comparative Literature. To her: The advantages of studying and practising Comparative Literature are many…In studying and practicing Comparative Literature, the…
’Ngugi wa Thiongo’s Weep Not Child : A Revolutionary Sprout versus Colonial Phantom
Adi Ramesh Babu Research Scholar, English Department, Kakatiya University, Warangal, Andra Pradesh African literature is politically committed. Some of the African writers have been very much influenced by politics. Most of the African writer’s revolt against colonial rule resentment is at racial discrimination. The colonial rulers and their slave trade inspired African novelists. Colonialism and…