M. S. Veena Dr. P.V. Ramanathan Assistant Professor, Department of English Professor, N.S.S. College, Rajakumari, Idukki, Kerala; Department of English Research Scholar, Amrita VishwaVidyapeetham Amrita VishwaVidyapeetham, Kollam, Kerala, India Kollam, Kerala, India Orientalism is a much discussed and debated term in postcolonial studies. It has acquired many shades of meaning through centuries. Starting off as…
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Decolonization in Some Cult Texts of African Literature
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…
Postcolonialism in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children
Tripa Felicia Teacher of Romanian Colegiul Tehnic Energetic “Dragomir Hurmuzescu” Deva, Romania “Postcolonialism-inspired by the fall of European colonial governments in the Third World following World War II, postcolonialism is the political and cultural analysis of societies freed from colonial rule. The endeavour has obvious relevance to the traditional work of history, but because of…
The Self-Discovery of a Teacher in the Novel The Ghosts of Vasu Master
Divyarajan Bahuguna MA(English), MBA, B.Ed. Research Scholar (Ph.D. English) Singhania University. This is an autobiographical novel of Githa Hariharan. Human emotions are excellently expressed through the life of Vasu Master. After the retirement he starts jotting down observations, memories, and thoughts about teaching. He starts to teach Mani. This is a sort of self –discovery….
Reframing the Land and the Native Self: Interdisciplinary Observations in Contemporary Postcolonial Texts
Dr. K.N. Shoba Assistant Professor, Velammal Engineering College, Chennai, India. Rob Nixon, a postcolonial ecocritic, poses a critically crucial question: “What would it mean to bring environmentalism into dialogue with postcolonialism?” (233). The paper makes a modest attempt to address a few issues that would in turn help answering the question. Environmentalism or ecocriticism, which…
Representing the Postcolonial Subaltern: A study of Arvind Adiga’s The White Tiger.
Ram Bhawan Yadav The politic of literary representation is supposed to be deliberate and complex in its nature and approach. The motivation, intent and agenda that direct such endeavor often result in domain of conflict, which leads to the crisis of literary, social and political representation. As Simon Featherstone points out, “In postcolonialism it [the…