Postmodernism and Minority Discourse

Essay from the year 2014 in the subject Literature - General, grade: 2 (B), , language: English, abstract: The awakening of the voices of the marginalized classes especially the ethnic, racial minorities and other oppressed classes in recent years is to be understood as part of the overall shift of paradigm in cultural discourses that took place with the advent of postmodernism and related developments. The manifest forms of changes in this regard include a number of revolutionary practices initiated by literary and cultural critics and writers in the interest of social change mostly from the third world countries. (The term 'third world' is used as 'a proper name to a generalised margin'([Spivak 199) and it is to be noted that the general use of the term in the West has ramifications as deep as the old and new varieties of colonialism.

Anvar Sadhath holds a PhD from University of Calicut, Kerala State, India. He is currently teaching English Language and Literature at The New College, (University of Madras), Chennai, India. He has published research papers in journals and anthologies of essays. He lives in Chennai.