A LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF THE STRATEGIC OF APPROPRIATION IN SELECTED POSTCOLONIAL NOVEL

Abstract

When I started out working on this project, my contention was uni-dimensionally limited to the claim that postcolonial writers adopt a number of linguistic strategies to reformulate English into more culture-specific varieties of englishes. The three-dimensional framework of CDA applied, as well as three years of (critical) reading and analyzing, have expanded my contention into a multi-dimensional perception of these works. It is not only the local culture which these writers encode in their texts, but also ideology, power-struggles, and the dialectics of the posUneo-colonial state of affairs also formulate the deep structure of all of these texts. One obvious point of development is on the (inter-)textual level. On the one hand, Achebe, as representative of early postcolonial writers, working in the 50s and 60s, hearkened back to the canon, rewriting it from the insider's perspective. Soueif, on the other hand,

as a writer and commentator of the late 201

century, seems to re­