The Schooner’s Flight: Deconstructing the Post-colonial Oeuvre of Autochthony & Culture

Colonial experience, despite sapping the subaltern from their very elementary freedom, seems to have a dramatic impact on their indigenous language, culture, and civilization. Postcolonial literature is repercussive of the socio-political impasse betwixt the colonial master and the colonized. Derrida's theory of ‘Deconstruction' was an epoch-making event, which had a significant denominator: the critical rereading of the texts that have been thought of as embodying universal values in the Western canon. In this paper, the intent is to show the failings and fallacies of globalization and pluralism. Deconstructing any literary text introduces us to the mechanics of building a society conducive to socio-political and cultural autochthony, through retrieving history with of those who were marginalized. The paper also brings into light the predicament and calamities of the colonized subjects who are striving to entrench the equality in every walk of life, claimed vociferously by the multicultural societies. The Schooner's Flight is considered among the chef d'oeuvre of the postcolonial epoch, which articulated the standpoint and plight of the downtrodden during colonialism. This paper seeks to draw a parallel between the ideological claims of universal tolerance and the societies today as a model of ensuing gap. It offers an insight into the contemporary cultural scenarios daunted by uncertainty and unpredictability and the reconstruction of formerly colonized societies providing ghetto identities to the colonized masses. Multiculturalism and cosmopolitanism, like all political theories, have a myriad of interdisciplinary facets and idiosyncrasies. Apparent isonomic practices in these societies are not significantly detached from the age-old practices of colonial and imperial subversions, labeling the human beings through their color, caste, religion and linguistic affiliations. This paper is a qualitative inquiry of the data which leads to the conclusion of the study.