Post-Colonial Perspectives on the Novel Ice Candy Man
A Conceptual Research Paper Author Name: Inkisar Ali (English Language and Literature) laureatefolks@gmail.com Post-Colonial Perspectives on the Novel Ice Candy Man Introduction The scourge of colonialism has had enormous impacts not only on economic, political, historical life but on cultural and social as well. The phenomenon of colonialism reached to almost more than half of the world and since then it has been shaping lives of the people all around in those erstwhile colonies. Bill Ashcroft in his famous book The Empire Writes Back (1989) explains the term post-colonial in these words that post-colonial covers all those who are affected by the imperial process from the moment of colonization to the present day. (p.2). In the same manner the literature written in those erstwhile colonies from the moment of colonization till present day can be regarded as post-colonial literature. It does create some sort of confusion in the post-colonial time frame and there exits ...