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    only be traced back to the impact of the Bourbon reforms but take into consideration the other factors and how these factors are more important for the origins of the wars of independence, such as the French, American and Haitian Revolutions and the creole discontent. The Bourbon reforms, in the 18th century, were aiming to establish administrative uniformity in the region, but also to strengthen Spain’s control of its colonies. This could be considered a spark towards the existence of wars of…

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    Chamoiseau uses magical realism in Texaco Gallagher, Mary. “CARIBBEAN LITERATURE”. The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies 60 (1998): 181–184. N'ZENGOU-TAYO, MARIE JOSE. “Literature and Diglossia: The Poetics of French and Creole 'interlect' in Patrick Chamoiseau's Texaco”. Caribbean Quarterly 43.4 (1997):…

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    Imperialism dominated the world during all of the 19th century and early 20th century. One of the countries that were taken over by imperialism was Sierra Leone. The Republic of Sierra Leone is a country located in West Africa and is infamous for its civil wars and “blood diamonds.” Before being imperialized by Britain in 1808, Sierra Leone was made up of freed American slaves from the Revolutionary War. Later on, in time, other liberated slaves or descendants of those slaves would end up…

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    An independence movement is when a group of people unite and combine their efforts to advocate for freedom. America and Latin America gained independence from their mother countries because of these independence movements. There were however, discreet differences between the causes of the American and Latin American Revolutions. Factors such as the way the colonies were established, the geography of the land, and the Enlightenment can cause a revolution. Britain and Spain established colonies…

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    Colonial Spanish America was a racially and ethnically stratified hierarchy because of the Casta system. The distinctions were between the ‘races’ and ‘ethnicities’ of Spaniards, Creoles, Blacks, and Native Americans with multiple mixtures of these races creating mestizos, and mulatos among others. This racial and ethnic hierarchy was maintained and perpetuated by the Casta system. The Casta system does not turn one race or ethnicity against another, instead it sub-groups people within a race or…

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    colonized nearly all of Central and South America, created a social hierarchy that left nearly all in the Americas oppressed. At the top were the peninsulares, wealthy Spanish aristocrats who controlled the colonial governments. Beneath them were the creoles, wealthy, educated whites, the mestizos and mulattoes, mixed race Latin Americans,…

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    character in Jane Eyre and how she foregrounds the importance of creolized gendered subject within the hierarchy of European patriarchy. The paper unravels the way in which the sense of unbelongingness and gendered discrimination encountered by a creole, is delineated by the author thereby portraying the subjective dilemma, faced by women of third world countries.The novel writes back to the western literary canons and also to the patriarchal norms. Jane Eyre is read against the…

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    In the eighteenth century, a cultural change consisting of philosophical thinking and new ideals transpired, known as the Enlightenment. It consisted of scientific reason and logic rather than religious faith. Many of the policies revolved around around man’s natural rights to life, liberty and property, as well as who should truly be in power and rule. Many of these Enlightened ideas inspired various groups of people, those who sparked revolutions globally, including the French and Latin…

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    Edna beginning to understand her inner perspective. Through coming to know Adele, Edna realizes she is not resemblant of a Creole wife, although that is what she was told to be by her husband and her surrounding society, and this lends to Edna feeling distanced and irritated by her home. These women, Adele and Edna, both live very similar lifestyles. They have wealthy, Creole husbands, have children, and live in lavish homes in New Orleans, yet their views and experiences shape them to have…

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    Spanish rule. Mexico’s journey to independence started in the early 1800’s as Creole and indigenous…

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