Abstract
Colonization, an evil in the name of good, is pregnant with meanings of human society both for the colonized and the colonizers. Although the colonizers tend to interpret colonization as the elevation of transformation of native culture and tradition to a higher and civilized culture and beliefs, yet, critics and theorists present their implantation of foreign culture and religion as exploitation and as a means of reaping the rich heritage of the South Asia and African regions which they carved out and occupied, making them empires of their own.. This paper therefore attempts to identify the saga of cultural and religious resistance of the colonial culture as presented by the post-colonial writers, Chinua Achebe in Things Fall Apart (1958) and Riaz Hassan in The Unchosen (2002). Post-colonial theory is applied as a framework in the paper to address the role of literature on social and cultural perspective of the colonial subjects, and their creative resistance to the culture of the colonizers. However, what perhaps provided justification to the colonization is the weaknesses observed from the colonized culture which give rise to the role of the power politics of the colonizers. It is therefore the objective of this paper to examine the degree of deceit of the colonizers in destroying the rich tradition and culture of the colonized with a view to ascertaining the strengths of the South Asia and African culture. The paper concludes that the impact of the post-colonial writers truncated the devilish colonial rule which brought about independence to the colonized regions.
Rasib Mahmood, Shaheen Khan. (2019) A literary Study of the Cultural and Religious Resistance of Africa and South Asia during Colonial Period, The Dialogue, Volume 14, Issue 1.
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