Briti kirjandus 20.-21. sajand kordamisküsimused vastustega
Magical elements: challenge
reliability of history, existence of reality
Postcolonial situation and Postcolonial trauma.
Postcolonial situation
· People have been colonized: politically, socially, economically, culturally
· Develop imaginative and linguistic forms of articulating that exploitation
· To gain a more incisive historical grasp of their situation
· Woman and marginalized ethnic groups
· Silent, their speech is ignored
· Enchanched meaning through literary representation-empowerment
· Courage to act on shaed, collective experiences
Postcolonial trauma
· Disability
· Metaphor for devastating effect of colonialism of the psyches of the colonized
· 'The nightmare of history':
· Nightmare-product of both warped post-colonial national identities, And the traumatic
processes of colonialism, traumatic experiences and events, holocaust
20. D M Thomas's view of history as myth