LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 12 : 1 January 2012
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
         B. A. Sharada, Ph.D.
         A. R. Fatihi, Ph.D.
         Lakhan Gusain, Ph.D.
         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         S. M. Ravichandran, Ph.D.
         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.

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Engaging History through Postmodern Strategies -
Coetzee’s Fiction in Context

Imran Ahmad, M. A., B.Ed., M.Phil. (English)

J. M. Coetzee

Castigating Instance of Postcolonial Literature

Postcolonial literature assumes not only an interrogative and castigating stance to the colonial practices of domination and exploitation but also explodes and explicates the means through which such enterprises are set in motion. In its attempt to provide a scathing attack of the exploitative strategies of the imperialistic Empire, postcolonial literature not only exposes the hidden agenda of colonialism but also generates many forms of narrative/linguistic strategies through the process of abrogation, appropriation and modification.

Re-writing Hegemonic Discourses

Taking recourse to a number of such indigenous narrative strategies, postcolonial literature attempts to counter, deconstruct and re-write the dominant hegemonic discourses. Writing from the postcolonial perspective, writers take recourse to a number of strategies like folklore, myths, orature, proverbs, local legends, etc., in their counter-narratives. The attempt to incorporate these indigenous or native structural patterns/features in their narratives is “a conscious attempt to move away from European styles and influences” (Pramod K Nayar, 2008: 222) and thus to develop an indigenous political position.

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Imran Ahmad, M. A., B.Ed., M.Phil. (English)
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