THE POSTCOLONIAL ARCHIVE: FICTION AS A TOOL OF HISTORICAL RECOVERY IN YAA GYASIS HOMEGOING

The present article examines Yaa Gyasis Homegiong (2016) from a postcolonial perspective that acts as a literary archive to recover the silenced history of Africa and African diaspora. With the mutil-generational narrative, the novel traces the divergent lives of two half sisters and their descendants, one lineage in Ghana and the other one in America. Homegoing re-establishes the fragments of erased histories in the colonial or transatlantic era. The paper also argues that Gyasis novel inherits the Postcolonial archive oral histories, cultural memory, and personal narratives into the broader story of colonial and diasporic trauma.Drawing on postcolonial theory, this study analyzes how Homegoing offers a place for recovering identity and healing while also reclaiming ancestral voices and destabilizing colonial history. The paper also sheds light on how, Gyasis work demonstrates the unique ability of the fiction to serve as a de-colonial archive, making visible invisible and restoring agency to histories once silenced.