Post-colonial literature (or "Postcolonial literature", sometimes called "New English literature"), is a body of literary writings that reacts to the discourse of colonization. Post-colonial literature often involves writings that deal with issues of de-colonization or the political and cultural independence of people formerly subjugated to colonial rule. It is also a literary critique to texts that carry racist or colonial undertones.

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  • Post-colonial literature (or "Postcolonial literature", sometimes called "New English literature"), is a body of literary writings that reacts to the discourse of colonization. Post-colonial literature often involves writings that deal with issues of de-colonization or the political and cultural independence of people formerly subjugated to colonial rule. It is also a literary critique to texts that carry racist or colonial undertones. Post-colonial literature, finally in its most recent form, also attempts to critique the contemporary post-colonial discourse that has been shaped over recent times. It attempts to re-read this very emergence of postcolonialism and its literary expression itself. Post-colonial literary critics re-examine classical literature with a particular focus on the social "discourse" that shaped it. Edward Said in his popular work Orientalism analyzes the writings of Honoré de Balzac, Charles Baudelaire and Lautréamont, exploring how they were influenced, and how they helped to shape a societal fantasy of European racial superiority. Post-colonial fiction writers might interact with the traditional colonial discourse by attempting to modify or subvert it. An example of this is Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea (1966), which was written as a pseudo-prequel to Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre. Here, a familiar story is re-told from the perspective of an oppressed minor character. Protagonists in post-colonial writings are often found to be struggling with questions of identity, experiencing the conflict of living between the old, native world and the invasive forces of hegemony from new, dominant cultures. Post-colonial literature works through the process of "writing back", "re-writing", and "re-reading". This describes the interpretation of well-known literature from the perspective of the formerly colonized. In Wide Sargasso Sea, the protagonist is shown to be re-named and exploited in several ways. The "anti-conquest narrative" recasts indigenous inhabitants of colonised countries as victims rather than foes of the colonisers. This depicts the colonised people in a more human light but risks absolving colonisers of responsibility for addressing the impacts of colonisation by assuming that native inhabitants were "doomed" to their fate.
  • Letteratura post coloniale è un'espressione che può indicare due diversi generi letterari: secondo alcuni, tutta la produzione letteraria in qualche modo antagonista a tutto ciò che vi era di "coloniale" secondo altri, il "post" di "post coloniale" va inteso nel senso di una successione cronologica.
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  • Post-colonial literature (or "Postcolonial literature", sometimes called "New English literature"), is a body of literary writings that reacts to the discourse of colonization. Post-colonial literature often involves writings that deal with issues of de-colonization or the political and cultural independence of people formerly subjugated to colonial rule. It is also a literary critique to texts that carry racist or colonial undertones.
  • Letteratura post coloniale è un'espressione che può indicare due diversi generi letterari: secondo alcuni, tutta la produzione letteraria in qualche modo antagonista a tutto ciò che vi era di "coloniale" secondo altri, il "post" di "post coloniale" va inteso nel senso di una successione cronologica.
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  • Postcolonial literature
  • Letteratura post coloniale
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