From colonialism to postcolonial literature

Abstract

The article outlines major trends in literatures of the postcolonial era and strives to demonstrate the impact of colonialism on different factors underlying the process of creation the New Literatures of the post-colonial word. It also elucidates how English literature with its typical genres and colonial discourses shaped perception of the once-colonized peoples under the British rule. The author explains the role of imperial stereotypes in the minds of the colonized and the subsequent linguistic and literary transfers on the postcolonial grounds—hybridization of genres, rewriting English novels and various literary experiments that contributed to the multifaceted perception of the postcolonial societies and ultimately their literary achievements.