Island Of Deolonial Love By Ricki Simpson Analysis

Some activists possess their own knowledge and techniques to voice themselves to a wider audience than their personal interaction boundaries bear. Most opt for writing techniques, such as novels, short stories, and even poems. There are a few who choose to express their messages over music. Despite the merits of each author's choice, it is certain that all forms of art have their limitations. For example, whereas music provides different meanings to a word depending on how is interpreted, writing affords simultaneous understandings by playing with grammar and styles that would challenge music to convey. In addition to the communication's difficulties, the topics activists usually deal with do not settle smoothly among all people. For example, the European colonialism on native communities and the physical and phycological results it imprinted on aboriginal descendants. …show more content…
Challenging as it is, some authors do accomplish spreading such concerns to the general public using nothing but words; written or spoken. Very few do so in both ways, and a famous one in this category is Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, a Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg scholar, writer, artist, and a distinguished First Nation Rights activist. In one of her books, “Island of Decolonial Love’s”, several poems and short stories are used to discuss the effects of colonialism on indigenous identity. Notwithstanding the importance of other pieces of her work, the short stories “how to steal a canoe” and “Ishpadinaa” thoroughly uses diction and amplification to pass the message that colonization has, indeed, oppressed not only the First Nation