| Leslie M Silko's Ceremony, Gerald Vizenor's Heirs of Columbus, Chinua Achebe's Anthills of Savannah, Tsitsi Dengarambga's Nervous Conditions, Vikram Seth's A Suitable Boy, and Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things , undermine Eurocentrism. They resist Assimilation into European ways; deconstruct European metanarratives of Civilization, Knowledge, History, et al; battle neocolonialism that is founded upon colonial mindset; analyze the infancy of a post/neo-colonial society; and question uncritical importation of metanarratives from the West.; Postcolonialism has more to do with attitudes than with any historical dates. It is a space of multiple, different, and equal others and is beyond the colonial Same/Other binary. Though officially decolonized, a neocolonial society retains colonial exploitative systems, whereas a postcolonial society attempts to come up with alter/native systems more in tune with the needs of the people. Gandhi, the postcolonial, suggests how and what should replace the colonial programs. The colonial sun has set, neocolonial twilight is passing, and postcolonial dawn is on the horizon. Sunrise is awaited. |
