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Volume : II, Issue : II, March - 2012 Postcolonialism: A Counter Discourse Nadeem Jahangir Bhat AND Imran Ahmad DOI : 10.9780/22307850, Published By : Laxmi Book Publication Abstract : The encounter between the colonizer and the colonized resulted in a situation where the hegemonic
colonial discourse was resisted in different ways and by different means. The writers of India, Africa and the
Caribbean countries came up with a narrative of their own whereby they resisted the socio-politicaleconomical
and cultural aggression of the colonizer. In their writings, they produced means and ways that
voiced and gave vent to those repressed feelings and wishes of the colonized that had been suppressed by
colonial hegemony. This marks the rise of a postcolonial discourse whereby the colonized writers revived
their identity, history, culture and myth. The present essay looks at diaspora, hybridity and multiculturalism
as some major postcolonial counter discourses taking recourse to which the postcolonial fiction writers write
back to ward off the Eurocentric bias and representation in literature. Keywords : Article : Cite This Article : Nadeem Jahangir Bhat AND Imran Ahmad, (2012). Postcolonialism: A Counter Discourse. Indian Streams Research Journal, Vol. II, Issue. II, DOI : 10.9780/22307850, http://oldisrj.lbp.world/UploadedData/754.pdf References : - Ashcroft, Bill Et al. The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures, London and New York: Routledge, 1989.
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