Postcolonial Perspectives In Modern Literature: Redefining Cultural Narratives

Abstract

Postcolonial perspectives in modern literature, emphasizing their role in reshaping cultural narratives following colonial rule. Through a critical analysis of various texts, it examines how authors articulate identity, resistance, and the complexities of cultural heritage in postcolonial contexts. This study aims at analysing how the postcolonial writers rewrite the cultural narratives of identity and power in the contemporary world. The primary goal is critical interpretation of cultural texts that represent subjects of cultural creolization, cultural rebellion, and subordinated voices, which promotes improved understanding of the formation of identity in the postcolonial world. A comparative analysis is done on the following important works; Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie and The Farming of Bones by Edwidge Danticat. The research employs critical theoretical approach based on postcolonial theory to analyse narrative techniques and motifs. The study shows that these stories subvert colonialist discourses and express new subject positions that are constructed from multiple cultural sources. Narrative strategies used by the authors allow their characters to regain agency and complicate the issue of identity. This study underlines the importance of literature as the means of cultural representation and defiance. In this respect, it offers a useful contribution to the understanding of the subtleties of cultural representation and the nature of power relations in contemporary postcolonial texts.