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Lecture 13.3 Famous Post-Colonial Writers

The document discusses key figures and works in postcolonial literature, highlighting Frantz Fanon's influence on anti-colonial struggles, Edward Said's critique of Western representations of the East in 'Orientalism', and significant novels such as Chinua Achebe's 'Things Fall Apart' and Tayeb Salih's 'Season of Migration to the North'. It also notes themes in postcolonial Pakistani writings from the 1960s to the 1990s, including social problems, political conflicts, and cultural differences. These works collectively address the complexities of identity and the lingering effects of colonialism.

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Lecture 13.3 Famous Post-Colonial Writers

The document discusses key figures and works in postcolonial literature, highlighting Frantz Fanon's influence on anti-colonial struggles, Edward Said's critique of Western representations of the East in 'Orientalism', and significant novels such as Chinua Achebe's 'Things Fall Apart' and Tayeb Salih's 'Season of Migration to the North'. It also notes themes in postcolonial Pakistani writings from the 1960s to the 1990s, including social problems, political conflicts, and cultural differences. These works collectively address the complexities of identity and the lingering effects of colonialism.

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Post Colonial Literature

Unit # 13.3
Frantz Fanon

• Frantz Fanon’s writings have inspired numerous people across the globe in
struggles for freedom from oppression and racially motivated violence.

• In 1961, Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth was published in French.
Arising out of the Algerian struggle for independence from France, the text
examined possibilities for anti-colonial violence in the region and elsewhere.
Edward Said

• Said was a Palestinian-American scholar who taught at Columbia University for a


major part of his academic career

• In 1979, Edward Said wrote Orientalism, a text examining the relationship


between those in the West and the “Other” in the East.

• The main importance of Said's Orientalism is in pointing out that even though
colonialism is allegedly over, the systems of thinking, talking and representing
which form the basis of colonial power relations still persist.
Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart

• One of the most significant postcolonial novels to emerge in this period


was Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart (1958)

• Achebe wrote Things Fall Apart as a direct response to the negative depiction of
Africans he saw in a lot of European literature.

• He wanted to write his own novel and show the Europeans that Africans were not
the "savages" they were made out to be in European literature.
Tayeb Salih

• Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North (1966) is another significant and
early work of postcolonial fiction.

• Salih’s novel follows an unnamed protagonist as he returns to his Sudanese village


after years of education abroad in England only to learn of the devastating effects
of imperialism.

• The novel was originally written in Arabic, and it was published in English for the
first time in 1969.
Post Colonial Pakistani Writings (1960-1990s):
Themes Writers

-Social problems ▪Qurat ul Ain Hyder ( Aag Ka Durya)


-Political conflicts ▪Abdullah Hussain ( Udaas Naslain, 1963)
-Religion, race, cultural differences ▪Intazar Hussain ( Basti, 1979))
▪Bano Qudsia ( Raja Gidh, 1981)

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