Post Colonial Novels in India

Pages:90-92
Neeraj Rani (Department of English, Govt Sr. Sec. School, Kheri Damkan, Sonepat, Haryana)

“Postcolonial” refers to writing/culture of nations/peoples/ cultures who were once colonized by European power. Postcolonial theory is an attempt to uncover the colonial ideologies implicit in European texts about the Other (native, non-European). It explores strategies of resistance and a “counter discourse” in native texts against colonialism. The term “postcolonial literature” now replaces the traditional category of “Common wealth literature” or “Third World Literature”. Homi Bhabha defines postcolonial as “that form of social criticism that bears witness to those unequal and uneven processes of representation by which the historical experience of the once-colonized Third World comes to be framed in the West. Meenakshi Mukherjee, Harish Trivedi, Aijaz Ahmed are some of the authors who take up post-colonial studies from different angles.