Abstract
The research paper addresses the unresolved linguistic vacuum that accounts for the
authorial and fictional abrogation and appropriation of language in Lessing’s works.
This research paper attempts to take a holistic view of these implications. Lessing has
used a number of methods to overcome this inadequacy and the abrogation and
appropriation of language thus seen is clearly evident in her novel The Grass is Singing.
The concepts of hegemony of language by the colonizers and their control over the
means of communications as well as the attempts to liberate the language by the blacks
were seen in the novel. In order to analyze the post-colonial aspects of the novel, one
has to keep in mind the colonial features that were seen in The Grass is Singing. Thus,
the process of abrogation and appropriation will be seen through the fictional
characters of Mary and Moses. With these characters Lessing highlights the larger
reality of the center-margin, colonizer-colonized relation in the novel. Natives on
acquiring control over the Language and the ability to control the means of
communication then reveal the hollowness of the colonial ideas based on oppression
and exploitation of the indigenous people.
Sadia Riaz, Farhan Ebadat Yar Khan. (2016) LINGUISTIC VACUUM PREVALENT IN MARGIN/CENTRE POLEMIC, Journal of Social Science and Humanities, Volume 55, Issue 2.
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