Post-Colonial “Writing Back”

• 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

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.