Abstract
Vengadasalam’s book offers a comparison of the literary and artistic practices and philosophies of three authors, two from India (Rabindranath Tagore and Badal Sircar) and one from Nigeria (Wole Soyinka), by examining their dramatic works: four plays in total, which offer an evaluation of the pre and post-independence national environment. Vengadaslam posits that the existing terminology for examining their work in the postcolonial context is insufficient and suggests a new term: “intercultural” to fully explore the magnitude of these writers’ art and the extent of their influence.
Highlights
Since the formation of the field of Postcolonial studies a few decades ago, several notable critics have contributed to forming the theoretical framework for analyzing literature from the former ‘third world’ in its various contexts
‘Postcolonial’ interpretations have been applied to fields as varied as science fiction, ecocriticism, pre-colonial writing and philosophy, gender and queer studies, covering literature from every corner of the world, using theory in varying degrees and iterations to analyze every aspect of writing by non-western writers, including writers of ‘color’ resident and active in western nations
Every year sees the publication of edited collections of essays by multiple scholars, or volumes of criticism by one authors, which attempt to re-cover old ground or explore hitherto neglected genres and/or writers under the ever-expanding umbrella of Postcolonial theory and interpretation, with varying degrees of success
Summary
Since the formation of the field of Postcolonial studies a few decades ago, several notable critics have contributed to forming the theoretical framework for analyzing literature from the former ‘third world’ in its various contexts.
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