Postcolonial Identity Models

Stephanie Newell (751) says that the postcolonial perspective on literacy and identity tends to be international in its remit. It introduced concepts of identity or models of identity formation that embrace ethnicity, authenticity, mimicry, and revolution as well as a return to conservative traditionalism. The term postcolonial, according to Newell (751), is a challenging one that is difficult to define because some authors use it to refer to the period immediately following the end of colonial rule whereas others use it to embrace the culture of a country that was once colonialized.

One author who uses the term in the latter form is Bill Ashcroft (11) who suggests that postcolonial analysis "rises to engage issues and experiences which have been put out of the purview of metropolitan theory." In essence, Ashcroft (4) asserts that there are many identity models to be found in postcolonial countries that include those based on gender, generation, social class, ethnicity, languages other than English,

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