The Tomorrow Tamer and Other Stories: Margaret Laurence’s Anti-Colonial Fiction

Canadian author Margaret Laurence's African fiction display the influence of colonial rule in African society. However in her collection of short stories The Tomorrow Tamer and Other Stories she goes a step forward and offers possible means of awakening. These stories demonstrate from many angles the effects of the process of independence on individual Ghanaians and the bewildered, anxious Europeans who were caught up in the hopes and the despairs of emergent nationhood. This research paper discusses Laurence's short fiction in detail looking for an anti colonial perspective in the stories included in The Tomorrow Tamer and Other Stories.