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    Post-Colonial Literature Not losing one’s sense of identification/culture with the colonizer’s culture Language itself engages in the creation of an ‘other’ with inferior connotations/associations; terms like “vernacular” or “native”. Travel histories/writing creates notions and myths about other cultures and civilization. History and a sense of civilization comes in only with the influence of the colonizers. Justification of the empire brought forth as a civilizing mission – a creation of

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    to any society‚ especially America. When the first colonies were formed‚ each had a very distant environment because of their separation. Each environment influenced their economies and social structures. According to Olsen’s lecture on Life in Colonial Times‚ the southern colonies had warm weather and enough rain for a very long crop season. In turn‚ they had many slaves (so many that the whites were outnumbered) and a completely different society than the north. The northern colonies had long

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    identities. Post-colonial literature can be considered as a body of literary writings that reacts to the discourse of colonization. Post-colonial writers focus on issues such as de-colonization and the political and cultural independence of people formerly subjugated to colonial rule. However post-colonial literature cannot be described only by the definition above‚ many other issues have to be considered in order to fully understand post-colonial texts. In order to understand post-colonial texts‚ one

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    Post-colonial Theory What it is: • the study of interactions between European nations and the societies they colonized; • an examination of the impact of the European conquest‚ colonisation and domination of non-European lands‚ peoples‚ and cultures; • an analysis of the inherent ideas of European superiority over non-European peoples and cultures; • an analysis of the role of representation in installing and perpetuating such notions. From the point of view of colonised

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    Post Colonialism Theory To understand the post colonialism theory‚ I believe that we must first take a brief look at how we got here. In order to reach the post era‚ we first must walk through the challenges and lessons of those before us. How else would the history that we have to teach us today be there‚ how else would we have the literature to educate us? Colonialism was all about the newer‚ bigger‚ better lands and though these lands had natives already‚ they were just another obstacle. They

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    Mexico Post Colonial

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    The history of Post colonial Mexico included many successful and influential leaders: Porfirio Diaz‚ Francisco Madero‚ Francisco (Pancho) Villa‚ and Emiliano Zapata. Disparities in classification of the revolution arise from the numerous factions and ideological assumptions advocated for the overthrow of Diaz’s rule‚ hence one can argue that it was a political‚ social‚ or economical revolution. A social revolution advocates a complete transformation of all characteristic aspects of society‚ encompassing

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    CORMAC McCarthy - BLOOD MERISIAN NOTES Blood Meridian or the evening Redness in the West is a 1985 Western novel by U.S. author Cormac McCarthy. The narrative follows an adolescent run-away referred to only as “the kid”‚ with the hulk of the text devoted to his experiences with the Glanton Gang‚ a historical group of scalp hunters who massacred North American tribes and others in the United States-Mexico borderlands in 1849 and 1850. The role of antagonist is gradually filled by Judge Holden

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    A Post-Colonial Critique of Othello A Mismanagement of Mirroring Gregory Schneider‚ Yahoo! Contributor Network Nov 26‚ 2005 "Share your voice on Yahoo! websites. Start Here." More: Othello Mirroring Venetian Masks FlagPost a comment Time passes‚ class texts are read‚ dissected‚ deconstructed. Suddenly in the epochs of literary criticism‚ a new theory emerges. Schools of thought form and take shape and eventually find themselves in the subconscious of the reader‚ who now has the option of understanding

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    The postcolonial period dates from 1957 to today. Many African countries achieved formal independence during the 1960’s In this post-colonial period‚ the majority of African states operate under some form of Presidential rule. Only a few of the states were able to maintain democratic governments permanently. As a result‚ many states produced military dictatorships during the 1970’s and early 1980’s. The military was seen as being the only group that could maintain order in an effective way

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    In an endeavor to enhance constructive‚ democratic and transparent governance for sustainable development in Africa‚ questions as to why Africa still remains with a poor record of Human Rights and Democracy should constantly reign supreme. It is in such respect that civic bodies such as the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation (IJR) cater for the provision of an in-depth analysis and critique of African assertions and fallacies like‚ elections per se‚ amount to democracy. It can however be noted

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