![]() ![]() ![]() Hence, the post-colonial theory might refer to a counter-cultural movement and resistance, which has emerged in the post-modern era to stand up to Westernization, marginalization, and Western domination. Thus, it reviews the dichotomy of East and West within the framework of a military, civil, value, cultural, and scientific conflict. In this context, the post-colonial theory is a political discourse whereby most writers of the Third World take shelter after World War II, especially those who belong to Asia and Africa to confront Western superiority, and to undermine European and American intellectual writings. ![]() Moreover, the postcolonial novel is sometimes harnessed to emphasize the idea of superiority, so postcolonial reading is designed to assimilate that cultural allegation. That is to say, although the piece of literature under debate is a work of fiction that is often shrouded by the use of ambiguous satirical language, the cultural stereotypes that stirred might be the primary focus of the postcolonial readings. Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses controversial novel is scrutinized in this paper to understand how postcolonialism literature might be illustrated and employed to deconstruct the postcolonial discourse. ![]()
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