The Remains of the Day
“The Remains of the Day”
-post-colonial novel-
Postcolonialism, discussed from a literary approach, deals with the literature produced in countries that were colonies and by the colonized peoples responding to the colonial legacy by what the British-Indian writer Salman Rushdie called “writing back”, and thus confronting colonial cultural attitudes through literature. However, it may also refer to the literature written in other countries, which takes as its subject-matter the idea or experience of colonialism.
Postcolonialism includes a vast array of writers and subjects. In fact, the very different geographical, historical, social, religious, and economic concerns of the different ex-colonies dictate a wide variety in the nature and subject of most postcolonial writing. We can talk about postcolonialism from different points of view. . This diversity exists because the term postcolonialism is used both as a literal description of formerly colonial societies and as a description of global conditions after a period of colonialism. In this regard, the notion of the “postcolonial” as a literary genre and an academic construct may have meanings that are completely separate from a historical moment or time period.
Postcolonial literature, a category devised to replace and expand upon what was once called Commonwealth Literature, beginning with the 1980s, gived birth to the “postcolonial criticism” which, in a way, overlapped “postmodern criticism”. Postcolonial criticism is one that goes beyond the border of western culture and investigates the non-Western products of culture and traditions.
The postcolonial fiction is characterized by its unity in diversity. Each culture has contributed to the general outcome specific aspects and particular life styles. Thus, we can, for example, speak of certain general topics, or themes, that are common to most of the writings: the effect of the colonial
-post-colonial novel-
Postcolonialism, discussed from a literary approach, deals with the literature produced in countries that were colonies and by the colonized peoples responding to the colonial legacy by what the British-Indian writer Salman Rushdie called “writing back”, and thus confronting colonial cultural attitudes through literature. However, it may also refer to the literature written in other countries, which takes as its subject-matter the idea or experience of colonialism.
Postcolonialism includes a vast array of writers and subjects. In fact, the very different geographical, historical, social, religious, and economic concerns of the different ex-colonies dictate a wide variety in the nature and subject of most postcolonial writing. We can talk about postcolonialism from different points of view. . This diversity exists because the term postcolonialism is used both as a literal description of formerly colonial societies and as a description of global conditions after a period of colonialism. In this regard, the notion of the “postcolonial” as a literary genre and an academic construct may have meanings that are completely separate from a historical moment or time period.
Postcolonial literature, a category devised to replace and expand upon what was once called Commonwealth Literature, beginning with the 1980s, gived birth to the “postcolonial criticism” which, in a way, overlapped “postmodern criticism”. Postcolonial criticism is one that goes beyond the border of western culture and investigates the non-Western products of culture and traditions.
The postcolonial fiction is characterized by its unity in diversity. Each culture has contributed to the general outcome specific aspects and particular life styles. Thus, we can, for example, speak of certain general topics, or themes, that are common to most of the writings: the effect of the colonial