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- Title: Postcolonial Discourse in Wide Sargasso Sea : Creole Discourse vs. European Discourse, Periphery vs. Center, And Marginalized People vs. White Supremacy (Critical Essay)
- Author : Journal of Caribbean Literatures
- Release Date : January 22, 2009
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 86 KB
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The gradual demise of colonial empires in the course of the twentieth century and the emerging cultural self-esteem of former colonies has resulted in a quantity of new literatures in recent years. These literatures seek to define the many voices of the previously marginalized Other and establish a claim to cultural identity. But they also challenge the very identity of the mainstream culture and they question the established concepts of cultural superiority. The first postcolonial texts could not realize in their themes their potential for subversion because of the direct control of the imperial ruling class who alone licensed the acceptable form and permitted the publication of the texts. Later, independent literature developed thanks to the abrogation of that constraining power and the appropriation of language and writing for specific purposes (Ashcroft et al. 43-8). Wide Sargasso Sea emerges within this huge postcolonial literature where, according to Ashcroft both a national and a regional consciousness try to assert difference from the imperial center. Such literature subverts the imperial privilege of the "centre" in order to give voice to that "periphery" which has been silent for so long. It is time that the world hears "the other side" (Rhys 82) of the story, the voice of denigrated and supplanted native cultures, the point of view of those who have been considered inferior for unjustified reasons. According to Achebe, the novel, like the whole postcolonial literature, works to disrupt the literary and philosophical basis of Western civilization. The convention of the novel, the accepted style of English. This tendency to underline and reject some typical aspects of imperialist literature and conscience is a practice of postcolonialism which "wants to disrupt, disassemble or deconstruct the kind of logic, ideologies of the West" (Ashcroft et al. 27).
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