Freedom and Postcolonial Reality: A Critical Reading of the Writings of H. B. Stowe and Toni Morrison

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Post colonialism has been defined differently by different theoreticians, but in literary circles it is the study of interaction between European nations and the countries they colonized and the impact it continues to have. In spite of the disparities of perspectives and differences in definition, what the critical texts which make up this body of postcolonial discourse share is a single common reference point-their concern with experience of exclusion, denigration and resistance under systems of colonial control. So the term, "postcolonialism," covers the historical, political, cultural and textual ramifications of the colonial encounter between the West and the non-West, dating from the sixteenth century to the present day. Postcolonial texts deal with responses to colonial expression which have been oppositional or contestatory in an open or oblique fashion. Thus post colonialism is viewed as a theoretical approach in literary and cultural studies. It also signifies the politics of transformational resistance to unjust and unequal forms of