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The aim of this study is to highlight the missing counter-discourse of colonized voices in Doris Lessing’s The Grass is Singing. The novel takes place in the South African colony that is divided by race. The White masters have more rights than the natives. They exploit their fortune, natural resources and the labor of the oppressed indigenous population. The natives are also emotionally and physically abused and work in inhuman conditions. The white supremacy of Mary Turner, Dick Turner, Charlie Slatter and Tony towards the black natives results in the racial discriminative acts like having prejudiced notion about the caliber of the native, labeling the natives, usage of hurtful and unkind words. The indigenous people’s agony and the racial trauma is convincingly absent in this novel which articulates the savage and stark indictment of South Africa's apartheid system. The contrapuntal reading of the novel The Grass is Singing presents evidently the racial tensions between the white and black.