LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 15:9 September 2015
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
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Protest Writing in South Africa

M. Habib, Research Scholar

Abstract

The proposed study shall primarily attempt to explore the Literature of Protest in South Africa and how it subverts the notion of white supremacy as an unquestionable fact of life. To explore how Nadine Gordimer’s novels My Son’s Story, The Conservationist, July’s People, and The Pickup challenge representations of black South African people by the white supremacists. To bring out clearly how the anti-apartheid discourse stimulates writers to formulate a canon that will somehow be more open, more realistic than what is found in racial discourse. To observe how the select novels of Nadine Gordimer explore the possibilities of social, political and cultural transformation in South Africa. Attempt will be made to analyze critically the psychological dilemma/predicament faced by the black colonized and marginalized South African black people as depicted in the anti- apartheid South African literature in general and the novels of Nadine Gordimer in particular.

Keywords: Black African, Nadine Gordimer, Protest writing, postcolonial fiction, South Africa, and White Supremacy.

Introduction

Postcolonial fiction makes available an alternative discourse for the recovery of a literature lost or ‘subaltern’ told from the point of view of those who are subjugated and unheard rather than those who are at the centre of any society(the ruling class). With post-colonialism and deconstructionism radically raising issues and revising the concept of the original and simultaneously rejecting the authority of the authorship, protest writing has destabilized the web of power relations aimed at convincing the colonized subject that the colonizer’s culture is at the centre.

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Mudasir Habib
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Department of English
Kashmir University

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