The Postcolonial Dimensions Of The Selected Works Of Ayi Kwei Armah And Ben Okri

📄 Project Abstract

Postcolonial literature, which made its strong impact on the literary world since Edward Saids Orientalism (1979) has found a convenient space in the critical analysis evaluation of African Literature because it is the thematic superstructure of the literature of the Third World and has come to widen the scope of analyzing the literary contribution of the formerly colonized nations to the world of letters. In particular it has provided the voice for these nations to express their shared experience and re-examine their relationship with the former colonizers. In this regard, African authors have kept the pace with the rest of the world as they have become unfettered and free to tell their story from their own perspective, based on the colonial experience and ironically achieving this by exploiting the novel form, usually considered to be a genre peculiar to the West. The selected authors for this study Ayi Kwei Armah and Ben Okri are among those who have successfully done this and in th...