© Impact Journals A POSTCOLONIAL STUDY OF JAMES JOYCE’S COUNTERPARTS

The present paper is a post-colonial analysis of counterparts by James Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) in the light of Edward Saied’s theories of post colonialism. ‘Counterparts ’ is taken from Joyce’s short story collection “Dubliners ” published in 1914. The theories of Edward Saied focus on the colonial oppression, on the respective identities of colonizers and colonized. The application of post-colonial theory has been explored in this short story. It has been attempted to review and define some of major principles of Postcolonialism and then detect these principles in Joyce’s counterparts. The short story reveals the effects of colonial power in post-colonial world that the characters face, like cultural and economic issue which is alive in the short story. Since Joyce utters the effects of colonization in the short story, he can be considered as post-colonial writer. Edward Saied insists that the only way that the East can feel equal or preferable to the West is to remain loyal and take refuge into their religious, historical, cultural and national norms and standards