When the text of the short story, is deconstructed, it can be seen that the main aim of the story is to tell the audience an importance of choice of strategies adopted for coping with the traumatic past events. With the help of this character, the author has shown contrasting ways that are used to deal with childhood memories and how these memories have an effect on a person (Norris 56)
There are two levels based on which the deconstruction within the story can be identified. The first level has been achieved by the author herself and the second level where the short story needs to be decoded itself (Wilson 29)
Postmodern colonialism is often referred to as one of the postmodern methods of discourse that are used for the analysis of cultural legacies that were followed in the period of colonialism as well as imperialism. Within the colonial nations, the detailed study of human relationships is carried out by the anthropologists using postmodern colonialism (Young 67)
Probably this man had several wives -- Mohammedans always insist on their full four, according to Mrs. Turon" (Forster 169)
But the novel Train to Pakistan shows that there are still tremendous divides between Hindus and Muslims, and also between the different classes of the land. One villager of Mano Majra, a town that lies on the border of the partition of Pakistan and India says that: "We were slaves of the English, now we will be slaves of the educated Indians -- or the Pakistanis [so it does not matter to us who rules]" (Singh 48)
Somalia Pre and Post Colonialism Somalia's population stands, by some estimates, at 4.5 million people, comprising one of the largest ethnic blocks in Africa, even though the number of people counted as residents of the country is comparatively small to that of other African nations (Lewis, I
1). Today, Somalia stands under the influence of its colonial past, a country that in post colonial times has been, for the most part, one of civil war and chaos, unable to stabilize itself in a way that would allow it harness its economic or leadership potential that exists in its location, natural resources, and by virtue of the fact that it is indeed the largest ethnic block in Africa today (Peterson, Scott, 2000, p
For example, while entitled to free speech, it was practically unheard of for colonial women to voice their opinions publicly on social issues and matters of law. Likewise, while not specifically proscribed by law, social convention and custom made it almost inconceivable for colonial women to hold jobs or work outside the home (Fenton)
Slavery in the Early Colonial Period: Naturally, the most significant social differences in colonial America were between the white settlers and their African slaves and indentured servants. Slavery first came to the colonies in the form of a Dutch ship that brought a shipment of kidnapped West African slaves to Virginia in 1619 (Furlong)
The descendants of slaves, while free, were still subject to significant social prejudices and deprivations for most of the next hundred years until the Civil Rights era of the 1960s. Women would eventually achieve equal rights and female suffrage as well, but not for another half century (Nevins)
Likewise, while not specifically proscribed by law, social convention and custom made it almost inconceivable for colonial women to hold jobs or work outside the home (Fenton). Even in later colonial periods when it became more common for women to work outside the home, taxation laws in some colonies "discouraged" the employment of women outdoors in the field by exempting only landowners who did not employ women outside (Uden)
The majority culture was, in many ways, trying to stamp out the Aboriginal culture. As such, the "post'-colonial psyche of this period, and its belief, representative of the period, that Aboriginal people were bound for extinction" (Brewster 1)
This type of coercion was accepted thanks to propaganda as the Civilization Regulations of the 1880s. Original documents of the time period show that native customs and traditions were considered "a hindrance to the civilization of a tribe," and thus efforts to assimilate Native American youth should "adopt any means to prevent the attendance of children at the agency schools, or use arts of a conjurer to prevent the Indians from abandoning their heathenish rites and customs" (Harjo 1)
This often created tension in those who were of mixed race, as seen in the case of Molly; "as she grew older, Molly often wished that she didn't have light skin" (Pilkington 38). In fact, all three girls were in constant conflict because of their mixed race (Noyce 2002)
Regulations such as the Aborigines Act of 1931 show the white majority claiming superiority over the native peoples. According to the book, "Molly, Gracie and Daisy came from a remote community in the north-west of Western Australia where the white population tended to stick tightly together," (Pilkington 85)
Pratt writes "that all the Indian there is in the race should be dead. Kill the Indian in him, and save the man" (Pratt 1)
What happened was, Angola became an area that was being utilized between 1500's and 1860's (by the Portuguese) to export a large number of slaves to the Western Hemisphere. (Ohlson, 2003, pp
She must have had the value of several elephant tusks upon her. She was savage and superb, wild-eyed and magnificent; there was something ominous and stately in her deliberate progress (Conrad, III)
Jung referred to the shadow as the "often dangerous…primitive, uncivilized, pre-evolutionary past of the species. The shadow is represented as jealousy and repressed desires like avarice, aspects which most people would prefer not to recognize as part of their being" (Schmuhl & Guches 2003)
So impressed is she with this concept of school that she does not even feel emotion concerning her brother's death. She says, "I was not sorry when my brother died" (Dangarembga 1)