POST-COLONIAL CHAOS OF IDENTITY CRISIS: AN ANALYSIS OF DEREK WALCOTT’S DREAM ON MONKEY MOUNTAIN

Abstract

The contemporary situation of the once colonized people is an amalgamation of cross-cultural influences, mingled, patch-worked, and stratified upon one another. Hence, the postcolonial era has developed into a combat zone where the indigenous and the colonizer fight with each other to retrieve their allocated share in the novel cultural space. The contemporary situation of the once colonized people is an amalgamation of cross-cultural influences, mingled, patch-worked, and stratified upon one another. Hence, the postcolonial era has developed into a combat zone where the indigenous and the colonizer fight with each other to retrieve their allocated share in the novel cultural space. Dream on Monkey Mountain, is based on the cultural and racial predicament that the characters encounter.