ABSTRACT
Every time consciousness breaks with its past, it renews itself through identifying with an “other’s” thought. To speak from an other’s thought is to redefine and renarrativize the world. The critical mind’s recent turn to postcolonialism aims to rethink, recuperate, and reconstruct racial, ethnic, and cultural others that have been repressed, misrepresented, omitted, stereotyped, and violated by the imperial West with all its institutions and strategies for dominating the non-Western. Indeed, the world over the last four hundred years has been dominated by an asymmetry of power relations between West and non-West. Only recently have those other peoples and cultures begun to make their voices heard. Following the postmodern dissolution of the West, postcolonial narratives or counternarratives have emerged in large numbers, interrogating and investigating the history of encounters between metropolis and periphery, colonizer and colonized, and dismantling imperial structures of knowledge and feeling in the realm of culture.
