Discrimination in the postcolonial period through theanalysis of Nervous Conditions, and the Lonely Londoners

Through depicting the suffering and oppression of man's experiences in colonial backgrounds, postcolonial writers portray the effects of colonial regimes in the dominated and marginalized societies. Some of the writers from postcolonized nations choose to rewrite an integral part of their history, which has been missed. Indeed, Tsitsi Dangarembga and Samuel Selvon are two of the prominent postcolonial writers who demonstrate the successive issues of racism and colonialism. The life of the colonized characters is riddled with subjugation and discrimination; such oppressions play a crucial role in distorting the identity of the Africans during the colonial period. The novelists seek to narrate that racial tension is an influential factor in snatching away the existence of the colonized people and loosening the national integrity of the fellowmen. Colonial Dominations sow the seed of racism because racial discrimination connotes the distinction between superior and inferior, high and low. This thesis targets to discourse the colonial and racial discrimination in The Lonely Londoners by Samuel Selvon and Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga. The novels depict racial discrimination practiced by the colonizers and gender discrimination as significant obstacles for the colonized women Then, language as a critical tool is used by the colonizers in transforming the identity and cultural values of the natives. The research also attempts to explain how the colonizers treat the colonized as the other. The binary opposition is not only between the superior and inferior; but it is inhabited in the human psyche as we see the difference between self and the other.