NARRATIVE STRUCTURE IN KARNAD S PLAYS: A POSTCOLONIAL READING

Abstract

The term postcolonial refers to the complex phase that politically newlineengages the erstwhile colonies after the cessation of European colonization newlinePostcolonialism designates the terrain of discourse that consists of reactions newlineto and analysis of the cultural legacy of colonialism It foregrounds the newlinecultural transformation effected by European colonization and the struggles newlineendured by the once colonized subjects to reclaim their cultural identity newlineprior to colonization It elucidates the dilemmas of the cultural conflict newlinebetween the two worlds the colonizing and the colonized