Racism, Transformation, and Awakening—A Postcolonial Interpretation of Identity in The Grass Is Singing

Doris Lessing’s “The Grass Is Singing” depicts British expatriates’ migration experiences accommodated into their new living and social surroundings in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) to highlight the dilemmatic situation full of shocks hardships those migrants confronted with lives as a result dynamic colonial identities on African land. The purpose this paper is expound racial discrimination against native blacks novel, analyze white hostess’s identity transformation, study native’s awakening his ethnic consciousness. Since culture by no means static, resilience adaptability societies should not be underestimated. Therefore, I argue that through learning how colonized peoples responded political cultural dominance Europe, transformability cultures would change characteristics imperial itself ways have been both profound lasting. themes discrimination, consciousness depicted continue important implications for today’s society.