Writing back to the Center: The Postcolonial  Novel as Counter-Discursive:

Boukemoum, Amal; Maoui, Hocine

Journal of Studies in Language, Culture and Society (JSLCS)
Volume 4, Numéro 1, Pages 44-54
2021-06-30

Writing Back To The Center: The Postcolonial Novel As Counter-discursive:

Authors : Boukemoum Amal . Maoui Hocine .

Abstract

Absract: Aschcroft, Boehmer and Harlow considered postcolonial writing as an act of resistance that supposes the existence of a center and margin. In that sense, the postcolonial novel is considered as counter-discursive. Its concern is not merely questioning or problematizing but resisting and subverting .The postcolonial writer does not aim at occupying the center in the center/periphery struggle, but to project itself as an acceptable difference .In doing so, postcolonial writers employ different methods, such as counter-discourse as a counter- discursive strategy and make of their writings a dynamic arena for counter- canonical texts by means of parody, intertextuality and allegory. The postcolonial text is , then, an indefatigable aplomb and ardeneous pursuit which attempts to probe into the roots in which the Western literary tradition has marginalized, mis-reprepresented and silenced its other by providing a platform for these dissenting voices. Several textual codes are employed within the postcolonial writings which dodge any direct way to encounter the colonial center. More importantly, the postcolonial novel makes of the European canonical texts a crucible out of which the postcolonial struggle would persist and continue and the postcolonial identity would be ripen. This article will be devoted in many ways to show the response of the postcolonial genius creativity to their Eurocentric counterpart by adopting certain stylistic strategies which came as a challenge to deconstruct the colonial discourse and the Eurocentric concept of the Other. The postcolonial novel is not a mere replica of its Western counter-part , this study will show the postcolonial literary potential in contextualizing its concerns shedding the light on Tayib Salih’s Season of Migration to the North