Race, Identity and Post-Colonial Literature

AQA's Modern Times option requires you to study literature that engages with the cultural, social, and political changes of the post-1945 world. Few changes have been more profound than decolonisation, mass migration, and the emergence of post-colonial literary voices. This lesson examines three novels that place questions of race, identity, and representation at the centre of their concerns: Alice Walker's The Color Purple (1982), Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things (1997), and Bernardine Evaristo's Mr Loverman (2013).

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The Post-Colonial Context