An analytical-descriptive study of the novel July People written by Nadine Gordimer from the perspective of Homi Baba and Antonio Gramsci

Postcolonial studies is a set of theoretical findings that analyze the colonial discourse, emphasizing the consequences of colonialism. Nadine Gordimer, a well-known South African writer and political activist, explores the conflict between whites and blacks in her futuristic novel July People, and answers the question of what happens when one side thinks it is racially and culturally superior to the other. He paints a fictional picture of the transition period in the colonial history of South Africa, in which the position and role of the white Smales family is switched with their black servant. Using the key concepts of post-colonialism, especially the opinions of Homi Baba and Antonio Gramsci in the categories of place, displacement, hybridization, hegemony and acculturation, and with a descriptive-analytical method, the present research examines the consequences of changing power relations between the colonizer and the colonized. , especially their identity aspects, in the story. With a deconstructive approach and emphasizing the relative and unstable nature of power relations, Gordimer points out that for the possibility of peaceful coexistence in the post-apartheid era, it is necessary for the colonialist side to deeply revise its economic, ideological, racial and cultural assumptions.