Settler colonialism

During the life of Cervantes, Spain was a place of confusion, disparity and change. On the one hand, it was at the height of its European domination due to the huge influx of wealth provided by its American colonies, but on the other, it was suffering some of it’s most crippling defeats in its history such as the annihilation of its seemingly invincible Spanish armada in 1588. Therefore, during this somewhat chaotic time, popular literature was usually fanciful and used as a form of escapism…

In ‘The Rhetoric of Empire’, David Spur explores the discourse that Western journalists, travel writers and imperial administrators have used to depict the non-Western world using tropes, which he identifies through a careful analysis, tracing various sorts of writings from different historical contexts, and studying the way in which these tropes have been deployed. Among these rhetorical modes are surveillance, classification, and affirmation; framing these themes proves very much useful, as it…

Caryl Churchill’s Cloud 9 is strongly divided between Act 1 and Act 2 with different settings. Act 1 takes place during the Victorian era (1837-1901) in Colonial British Africa. This Act takes place in a very rural setting close to the wilderness and is also relatively comfortable to be outside during the day- and nighttime. This Act contains a very strong patriarchal environment, especially focusing on the father, Clive. The main family of the play is wealthy with a servant during a time where…

As the gifts declined, so did the Confederacy’s power. Without the rivalry between the French and British, the Haudenosaunee lost their vital place as intermediaries between the two superpowers, forcing them to adopt a new strategy to survive. The Treaty of Fort Stanwix signified a shift in Haudenosaunee strategy from mediating between rivals to fraudulently selling land belonging to other Indians. By 1768, the British were attempting to complete their proclamation line issued in 1763,…

Columbus’s Letters Shape the Ideas Europe Had of the New World During the fifteenth century Christopher Columbus’s letters influenced the thinking of many individuals concerning the New World. Through his letters he provides a path for others to view the New World and has an impact on their beliefs. Columbus’s letters shape both the ideas that the people have of the natives of the New World and the ideas of riches, prosperity and beauty that is associated with the land. One work that clearly…

Jackie French’s descriptive historical extract ‘Nanberry Black Brother White’ uses a native animal (an o’possum) as an allegorical representation for what happens to the indigenous when the English come and take over their land as well as their culture. After the invasion of the English, readers are open to discover that the most important message Nanberry’s story highlights is his entrapment within the two cultures and the the o’possum is brought into the story to exemplify Nanberry’s situation…

In Sylvia Wynter’s (1990) seminal essay, “Beyond Miranda’s Meanings: Un/Silencing the ‘Demonic Ground’ of Caliban’s Woman,” the scholar argues that Western Europe’s colonization of the Americas and Africa shifted the ways in which Europeans conceived of difference. Rather than the use of sex characteristics, which had previously been the defining marker of distinction, “the cultural-physiognomic variations between the dominant expanding European civilization and the non-Western peoples that,…

The Elephant Vanishes can be seen as a manifestation of modernization and homogenization of Japanese culture through the influence of westernization. Murakami is particularly interested in the way that the characters react towards the changing society. Throughout the collection, he writes about the consequence of westernization by exploring the seriousness of Japan as a vanishing culture. This idea is most profound in the beginning and the end story of the collection The Wind-up Bird and…

Written Assignment "How does Ferdinand Oyono use symbolic devices to illustrate the character development of the main character, Toundi, in Houseboy?" With aspiration towards material and his fascination of the white man's world, during the French colonisation of Cameroon in the 1950's, Toundi Ondoua escapes his home and starts to reject native upbringing to be part of the white man's world. mad'. As Toundi, the protagonist of Ferdinand Oyono's novel Houseboy goes to discover his fascination of…

Does the capital punishment appropriate to prisoners, who are not ready for dying, are forced to execute to die in front of other prisoners (or other people) without giving a chance and caring their human rights and feelings? In the 1920s, the Southeast Asian country, Burma (now known as the country in Asia, Myanmar) was the part of the British Empire. The British controlled their new land, Burma through direct rules like the implementation of a secular education system, which "was given control…