Post-Colonial Discourse As Mediation Of The Western Ideological References. Two Literary Works as a Case Study

Abstract

This thesis investigates the post-colonial literary writing as expression of the post-colonial intellectual class. The foundational assumptions it is based on revolve around the contention that the colonial structures have enduring effects on the formation of the post-colonial ideology, values, and worldview. These effects are assumed to be markedly salient in fictional works written before and after independence. The colonial/Imperial structures are explored in order to demonstrate the mechanisms that govern the emergence of the colonized voice, mainly in literary works. It is by means of colonial processes that colonialism/imperialism managed to govern, frame, re-name, and design the colony after the image entertained by colonial/imperial discourses and which stresses the superiority of the Western model