POSTCOLONIAL LITERATURE

Postcolonial Literature

Postcolonial Literature

Post-colonial literature "is a hot commodity these days. On the one hand writers like Salman Rushdie and Arundhati Roy are the best-selling authors, and on the other hand, no university department worth its salt wants English to be without a scholar who can handle knowledge discourse on postcolonial theory. But it seems that there is great uncertainty as to what the term denotes. Many of the debates among postcolonial scholars center where national literature or authors can be justifiably included in the postcolonial canon. Much of the debate among scholars of postcolonial criticism implied by the term "post-colonial" itself. Moreover, rarely mentioned, but quite surprisingly, very few real authors of the literature under discussion embrace and use the term to label their own writing (Johnson, 2005).

The depiction of Muslim characters in the contemporary ethnic English novel is subject to the author's understanding of his personal perspective on social, cultural and religious reality.  The aim of this study, therefore, is to explore motivations and influences and consider how these may contribute to current discourses surrounding the stereotypical portrayal of ethnic characters. Several concepts and ideas have been applied to the research to deconstruct what the author has said, and more importantly what he has not said but strongly implied in his text.  The results of this research have indicated the author has a colonialist perception of the Orient and therefore uses subaltern meanings in his depiction of the ethnic Muslim character. As well as this the author uses his protagonist to continually negotiate and renegotiate his cultural, social and religious identity and this constant state of flux allows the author to disclose his internal struggle in coming to terms with his own dual heritage (McLeod, 2010).

This is very complex and an account of the participation of modern Britain in between of their colonial exploits end and starting of post-colonial character. The character of the story come face to face with what it is to live in a post-colonial, multiethnic and struggle with understanding and moral identity in this different and totally new environment, however, dark matter does not surpass the book. "White Teeth, an ideal allegory for the blue-eyed Anglo-Saxon English or woman, is a novel that tells that there is no such thing., characters of the novel: Archie, (Alfred Archibald Jones), a British worker, and Samad Iqbal, a Muslim from Bengal, and a attendant in a vacationer India restaurant. Samad who feels very proud to be the grandson of Mangal Pandey who was a famous freedom fighter and a leader of the former Bengal who died fighting against the British army in 1857. Samad, who acknowledge with great pride his famous grandfather, Mangal Pande, as the leader of the former Bengal who died fighting against the English in India in 1857, has twin sons, Majid and Millat.  Majid is the sign of fundamentalist Muslim tradition, while Millat, who speaks the similar language up to date with the young street tough from London, is the symbol of the incorporated, British ...