Colonial and Postcolonial Discourse in the Novels of Yom Sang-Sop, Chinua Achebe and Salman Rushdie

This book discusses the psychological topography of Korean, Nigerian, and Indian people by exploring the counter-colonial discourse through the study of works by three writers Yom Sang-Sop, Chinua Achebe and Salman Rushdie counter-colonial discourse in the works of these three writers strikes back at powerful colonial discourses, Soonsik Kim successfully brings out the Third World «voice» against the colonial legacy of the West and gives readers a taste of being «the Other». This book marks a significant transition in the critical attention of Third World discourse from mere projection to subjective viewpoint.

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The Author: Soonsik Kim, a Professor in the English Department at Myongji University in Seoul, Korea, received her Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. After spending a year as a full-time visiting lecturer in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures in Indiana University, she returned to Korea to teach. Kim has published numerous articles on contemporary novels in Korean journals.