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Postcolonial theory comprises the discourse of the m.u:gin/periphery with reference to the centre , but what exactly is postcOlonialism ? Kwame Anth ony Appiah asks, "Is the Post- in Postmodem the Post- in the Postcolonial?" And an equally provocative question is thaI of AnnamariaCaru si, "Po st, Post and Post. Or, Where is South African Literature in All This?· Vijay Mishra and Bob Hodge in their essay -What is Post (-) coloniallsmf " remind us that the 1989 edition of the Oxfo rd English Dictionary does not give pest-colonialism (hyphenated) an independ ent entry. Instead , it "exlsts alongs ide other compou nds [with the prefix 'pcst-'] such as post -adolescent, post-cognitive, post-coital and so on- (276) . In 1994 , Columbia University Press published a compilation of essay s in Colonial Discourse and Post-Co lonial Theory : A lUathr, edited by Patrick Wtlliams and Laura Chrisman. Other texts include : Onemalism and 1M Postcolonial PrediCturleTU. edited by Caro l A. Breckenridge and Peter van der Veer (1993), Michael Harris ' Oursiders and Insiders: Perspectives of Third World Culture in British and Post-Colonial Fictio n ( 1992) and Post-Colonial English Drama: Commonwealm DramaSince 1960. edi ted by Broce King (1992) . What then is postccloeial theory and why is it significan t to the adapta tion and rewriting of western texts? Although there are geo-political, historical and theoretical amb iguities inherent in the term postco lonial , it is usedto identify a type of theoretical discourse that interrogates and challenges eurocentric assumptions written in history and literature. In The Empi re Writu Back.: lMory and Practice in Pcm-eolonial Literatures, Bill
Ashcroft. Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tlffin use the term postcolonial to "cover all the culture affected by the imperial process from the mamou of colonization to the presen t day- (2) . This raises the question about whether one single term can represent all the culture affected by the imperial process . Such a universalizing and totalizin g definition seems to render the term inadequate . Ella Shohat in her "Notes on the Postco lonial- suggests : Positioning Australia and India., for example, in relation to an imperial center, simply because they were both colonies. equatesthe relations of the colonized white-settlers to the Europeans at the -centre- with that of the colonized indigenous populations to the Europeans. It also assumes that white settler coun tries and emergin g Third World nations broke away fro m the "ceatre" in the same way . Similarly, white Australians and Aboriginal AusaaIians are placed in the "periphery." as though they were co-habitatants (sic) vis-a-vis the "centre" (102). There are obviou s political , historical and cultural differences between white- settler colonies such as Australia. New Zealand and Canada. and colonies in Africa and India. Colonization in coun tries such as Kenya and South Africa where European settlers took possession of the land is different from countries like Nigeria and Ghana. Furthermore , the colonizer/colonized relationship of the francophone colonies is unlike that of the angl opbone colonies. The French colony of Algeria is not "postcolonial" in the same way as Hong Kong, which will be independen t of Britain in 1997 . The variou s colonized countries differ in race , nationali ty, langua ge and the way that they were co lonized and governed. However . desp ite the differences. there are some similari ties betw een the litera ture produced by those whose lives were affected by the
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