A Postcolonial study of Bapsi Sidhwa’s “Ice candy Man”

Abstract

Postcolonial literature refers to writing from regions of the world that were once colonies of European powers .the term refers to a very broad swath of writing in many languages „but my emphasis in this class is on writings in English .The writers in this course come from quite different backgrounds , but they struggle with some similar issues ,chief among them being the legacy of colonialism -of European dominance postcolonial literature is of particular importance partly because much of it is stylistically original and different from earlier European literature. The best postcolonial literature aims to tell good, entertaining stories while seriously attempting to represent some of the most troubling conflicts and injustices imaginable. Postcolonial writers attempt to develop their own literary voices in regions of the world that may where literature and have been described in the colonial era as "primitive" or "savage" culture were considered absent or somehow illegitimate. The larger project of moving past this colonial legacy, what we might call the "decolonization'" of writing, brings up a wide array of themes. In this course literature, politics, and social theory will be inextricable for the simple reason that the texts themselves are intensely concerned with social and political problems. The postcolonial experience has been extremely violent and complex, with new forms of oppression and violence.