Would you agree with Namvar Singh that ‘neo-colonialism’ can be resisted? Discuss
In the realm of culture, Singh argues, though a small percentage of society has been culturally colonised, and that too superficially, it is important to realise that this colonisation is hegemonio. That is, the colonisation of the small percentage of Indians is one that constitutes cultural control and exerts power. It is important, also to remember that this small percentage of culturally colonised people belong to the class that claims to having changed and developed literature in the post-Independence period. Singh’s cynicism against this class is evident, and he ironically points out that this is the class that claims to have effected decolonisation, even though it was a “pseudo-decolonisation.”
Namvar Singh recommends that we should not dissociate ourselves from the progressive elements in the west in search of a distinctive identity for Third World 1 literature. The model for “Third World Literature” could be the literature of the socialist bloc of the Second World. Although the Second World is beginning to disintegrate, its literature is not. Singh asserts that the literature of the Second World is more liberated and exciting than that of the Third World. Namvar Singh’s resistance to neo-colonialism leads him to find alternative models for a ‘Third World Literature’. Clearly, he accepts the division of the world into three, a position Aijaz Ahmed so strongly refuted from the postcolonial standpoint.
Would you agree with Namvar Singh that ‘neo-colonialism’ can be resisted
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