The novel by Ulistkaia is one more Oriental tale in the stack of the postcolonial narratives, which implicitly or explicitly deal with the Caucasus (Russia's Orient) and specifically, with Georgia, constituting a fiber for postcolonial ideology. There is, of course, much in this metaphor that bears reflection (mirroring again) in relation to many works emanating from former colonies, and the metaphor is suggestive of certain perils faced by writers in these circumstances" (Tymoczko, 1999: 20). ![]() Tymoczko of what postcolonial writing is: "…post-colonial writing might be imaged as a form of translation (attended with much ceremony and pomp, to be sure) in which venerable and holy (historical, mythic and literary) relics are moved from one sanctified spot of worship to another more central and more secure (because more powerful) location, at which the cult is intended to be preserved, to take root and find new life. Colchis into modern and desperate Georgia, reminding us of the most relevant metaphorical example by M. As the novel "Medea and her Children" tears the main character, a powerful goddess, apart to turn her into a poor woman, Ulitskaya instantly translates the mythical land of wealthy, i.e. The analytical studies of the Western scholars, who have defined Georgia-Russian literary writing as a postcolonial phenomenon, also support themselves on the plausible assessments made by the political researchers. ![]() Postcolonial Literature is more than just literature about the ex colony, or a literary text written by an author from the ex colonized country.
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