Post-Colonial “Writing Back”

The main aim of this article is to outline the state of the art of contemporary post-colonial literature related to the names of Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, Theodore Wilson Harris, Amos Tutuola, Grace Nichols, Amryl Johnson, Fred D’Aguiar, Maryse Conde. The theory of post-colonial studies put for...

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Published in:Polylinguality and Transcultural Practices
Main Author: Nina F. Shcherbak
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Russian
Published: Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University) 2020
Subjects:
post-colonial literature
post-colonial theory
post-colonial reading
post-colonial thinkers
Philology. Linguistics
P1-1091
Theodore
North Atlantic
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.22363/2618-897X-2020-17-3-334-342
https://doaj.org/article/82fec2a5c46e4b2c83ad93c56cac176b
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Summary:The main aim of this article is to outline the state of the art of contemporary post-colonial literature related to the names of Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, Theodore Wilson Harris, Amos Tutuola, Grace Nichols, Amryl Johnson, Fred D’Aguiar, Maryse Conde. The theory of post-colonial studies put forward by Franz Fanon is considered to account for the creation of a new type of a post-colonial writer who maintains his own identity and is not related to any stereotypes, being in a way a Gorgon face that freezes anyone who wants to apply European or North Atlantic views on it. This sort of literature largely breaks the rules of the English language in the case of Anglophone literary sources that are considered in this research. A tendency is to develop a new kind of narrative regarding historical novel as well as classical post-colonial literature in the face of S. Rushdie or Garcia Marquez.

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