Postcolonial narratives about literature

Post-colonialism began with the liberation of the colonies from the colonial yoke. Postcolonialism marked the death of colonial literature and the beginning of colonized literature.

This article seeks to examine the wounds and teeth made by settlers in liberated nations.

First, postcolonial narratives speak of a wounded civilization. The colonists inflicted scars and wounds on the nations. These scars and wounds resulted in the uprooting of cultures and wounded the textures of these nations. The language of the colonizers replaced the language of the countries. Customs, morals and values ​​passed into an ethos of change. Some of these changes have been positive and others negative. The positive changes manifested in the spread of English as a global language. The colonized nations saw the birth of pidgin and creole as new forms of the English language. The negative aspects are the death of the customs and cultures of the colonized nations.

The second aspect I would like to focus on is that the colonized nations used the same language as the colonizers to express freedom, liberation and independence.
There is the colonial narrative about a wounded civilization. Language became a vehicle for the ethos of cultural expression. Language became a saint of liberty. Language became a cultural display of freedom in exorcism.

The third aspect that I would like to highlight is psychological. I use the Jungian theory of archetypes. Archetypes are patterns found in culture and are a universal sense of meanings. Colonized nations carry the ethos of colonial archetypes that have superseded native archetypes. The norms and values ​​of the colonizers became predominant archetypes of the colonized world. The archetypes of the colonized and the colonizers collided with each other. This gave rise to the birth of new cultural archetypes.

The fourth aspect that I would like to focus on is the beast of paradox. Now, what is the beast of Paradox? It is a situational irony that prevails in colonized nations. It is the culture of psychotic expression. It is a wound that has found the fetish of recovery. It is the passion found in the ironic expression. It’s a beautiful song about being hurt. It is a cultural calypso of cultural expression. The beast of paradox contains the birth of the nation’s desire to be free.

The fifth aspect that I would like to address is the look. The look is the term of the psychologist Lacan. For him there are many looks like the sexual look, the clinical look, etc. The colonizers viewed the colonies with the barbarity of psychological appropriation. This is an evil look at civilization. But the story does not end here. The colonized looked at the colonizers with shyness, with protests and also used the look of affirmation to break with the cultural tyranny of the colonizer.

The sixth aspect I would like to focus on is the theology of deconstruction. Deconstruction is the eruption of marginalization and privilege in a text and was popularly raised by the philosopher Derrida. For the colonized, language became a deconstruction machine for the colonial narrative. The language opened up the wounds and scars that had been inflicted by the settlers. Language freed the dependency of colonial nations into an oasis of becoming. Language became the fossil that was burned through recovery and reappropriation. The language became a legacy of change.

The seventh aspect that I would like to dwell on is the being-in-itself of the philosopher Sartre. Being-in-itself is an idiom for reflective self-awareness. The conscience of the colonized nations became a channel of social and cultural repercussions. Being-in-itself became an idea to transform colonized nations into freedom and liberation. Being-in-itself became the tolerance of pacifism. Being-in-itself found new expressions of postcolonial ideologies.

To conclude, I would like to say that postcolonial narratives open wounds and scars of colonized nations. Postcolonial narratives are narratively based on wounded civilization, language, archetypes, the beast of paradox, the gaze, and finally the concept of being-in-itself.