POST-COLONIAL HEGEMONIC INDICES IN ADULRAZAK GURNAH’S GRAVEL HEART

Abstract

Many post-colonies are faced with bad systems of governance which are invariably giving rise to dysfunctional societies. These are often blamed or attributed to colonial rule. Due to the abrasive interference and influence of these western cultures on the colonies/colonized; the oppression and subjugation from the colonialists; class discrimination, corruption and injustice have engulfed these postcolonies till date hence are all perceived to be consequences of colonization. The 2021 Nobel Laureate for Literature, Abdulrazak Gurnah, in his novel, Gravel Heart, highlights these hegemonic indices as he transverses the influences and effects of colonialism and the poor leadership systems in the post colonies as after-effects of the abrasive nature of colonial rule by the imperialists. Postcolonial literary theory investigated these issues as it interrogates the historical antecedents of colonialism.