Postcolonial Retelling

myth:postcolonial_retelling

Writers of the once-colonized lands wrote back to the imperial canon and reclaimed their own myth: Derek Walcott's Omeros makes Homeric heroes of St. Lucia's fishermen, Wole Soyinka raises the Yoruba god Ogun in modern tragedy, and Salman Rushdie pours Indian myth through the frame of the Thousand and One Nights. The epic taken from the conqueror's hand and turned. — contemporary literature