Identity In Lessing's The Grass Is Singing

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The Grass Is Singing by Lessing in the early years of her vocation as an author, is set in South Africa, Rhodesia (New Zimbabwe). This novel is concern with racial discriminations amongst blacks and whites. This work is an attempt to exhibit the life of whites in colonized societies and their superiority to blacks. Like numerous, different works of Lessing which is concern with the postcolonialism, despise the racial humiliation spread in numerous African nations. As told before, the main character is a white who is living among two quiet different societies, consequently, she loses her identity. Mary experiences a new kind of life in a very strange society in another country and among the black Rhodesian. She is a stranger in this society and since she did nit shape her identity in England she is neither English not a Rhodesian. The character confronts with a lot of new issues, like unsettlement and insecurity in her new culture. Consequently, the new society would influence her characteristics. She makes England a kind of utopia for herself and missed her home. Nonetheless, since she is not grown up in England she is not an English woman. Thinking of home and the life situation there, makes Mary an isolated woman. She makes an exile for herself and feels a kind of nostalgia for herself. The beginning of the story one can see that everybody …show more content…

When the colonizers brought the indigenous language with themselves and when the educational system was changed into a western one, the native identity becomes weak. The writer uses the native languages in her or his writing to communicate with people because the writer thinks that most of the people can trust and understand through their native language. So, language is an important subject of the old identity, but it is also a tool that can change the present and becoming a main part of the new identity. The progress of new language makes new identity and it does not renew the old

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