Counter-discourse In Postcolonial African Novel

Abstract

Post-colonial African novel has become an effective means to revise the dominant colonial discourse and to write back to the empire. In this sense, this literature’s endeavor is to give voice to the voiceless and to restitute the right to denounce the traumatic outcomes of colonialism and to unveil years of oppression, violence and destruction. The aim of this paper is to show how African postcolonial writers rely on counter-discursive strategies for decolonizing their peoples’ minds. These writers devote themselves in producing counter-narratives that challenge cultural imperialism and help to reconstruct their identity and history.