Postcolonial period- Identity crisis.

The Postcolonial literature as you  may know is a movement in literature that has to do with critical positions about the situations that flourished from the colonial period. An important feature of the postcolonial period is how writers tried to not only represent the reality that they had lived in a long period of suffering for their countries but also to express their discontent.

What really called my attention about Postcolonial literature is that authors as Said seem to be extremely aware of how colonialism changed their identity, since the invasions affected in terms of customs and traditions and this produced a fragmentation of society and  people even started to questioning about themselves as they were imposed to many injustices and hard work . This identity crisis has to do not only with national and cultural issues but also with social identity that is reflected in questions that people asked themselves as : Am I part of a wrong community? Are my beliefs right?

 Therefore it is very important to take into consideration that literature served as a manner of telling the truth in a, sometimes, "makeup" way .

At the same time I think that this Postcolonial literature refers to these bad conditions and problems because through writing, writers could reduce the hegemony that some world powers as Britain and France were trying to get. In that sense, writing was a escape and manner of expressing and showing a little bit of themselves in books.

 I find really interesting the power that literature has in the history of the world, it can help people to capture very important moments with descriptions of places, society and culture and to understand their present with stories of the past. This is totally the case of postcolonial period and the identity crisis that communities of Africa, Asia and other continents suffered for a long period of time.