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Makale Özeti:
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Since postcolonial studies took the academic world by storm in the late 1980s, it
has proven to be one of the most diverse and contentious fields in literary and
cultural studies, a field of apparently endless argument and debate. Postcolonial
literature and theory investigate what happens when two cultures clash and when
one of them empowers and deems itself superior to the other. This theory moves
beyond the bounds of literary studies and investigates the social, political, and
economic concerns of the colonized and the colonizer. It highlights the various
strategies adopted by colonized nations to resist this domination, and to decolonize
their own lands and minds. In his essay, "The postcolonial and the postmodern: the
question of Agency", in The location of Culture, Homi K. Bhabha asserts
"postcolonial perspectives emerge from the colonial testimony of third world
countries and the discourses of minorities within the geopolitical division of East
and West, North and South" (171).
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