Postcolonial Theory

1. Postcolonial Theory Chealsey-lynnLamirante

2. What is colonialism? • Noun • the control or governing influence of a nation over a dependent country, territory, or people. • There are two sides to colonialism. • When a nation extends their ruling over other countries beyond their borders. [Colonizers] • When a certain population is dominated by a superior population. [Natives]

3. What is post colonialism? • Adjective • of or pertaining to the period following astate of colonialism. • Postcolonial Theory attempts to focus on the oppression of those who were ruled under colonization.

4. Postcolonial Theory • Post colonial theory deals with the reading and writing of literature written in colonizing countries which deals with colonization or colonized people. It mainly focuses on: • the way in which literature by the colonizing culture distorts the experience and realities, and imprints the inferiority, of the colonized people. • literature by colonized peoples which attempts to express their identity and reclaim their past in the only way possible.

5. Wendy Rose Long Division: A Tribal History

6. Poem Our skin loosely liesacross grass borders;stones loading upare loaded down with placement sticks,a great tearingand appearance of holes. We are bought and dividedinto clay pots; we dieon granite scaffoldingon the shape of the Sierrasand lie down with lips openthrusting songs on the world. Who are we and do westill live?  The doctor,asleep, says no. So outside of eternitywe struggle until our bloodhas spread off our bodiesand frayed the sunset edges.It's our blood that gives youthose southwestern skies. Year after year we give,harpooned with hope, only to fallbouncing through the canyons,our sings decreasingwith distance. I suckle coyotesand grieve.

7. Postcolonial Theory Our skin loosely liesacross grass borders;stones loading upare loaded down with placement sticks,a great tearingand appearance of holes. We are bought and dividedinto clay pots; we dieon granite scaffoldingon the shape of the Sierrasand lie down with lips openthrusting songs on the world. Who are we and do westill live?The doctor,asleep, says no. So outside of eternitywe struggle until our bloodhas spread off our bodiesand frayed the sunset edges.It's our blood that gives youthose southwestern skies. Year after year we give,harpooned with hope, only to fallbouncing through the canyons,our sings decreasingwith distance. I suckle coyotesand grieve.

8. Imagery: I imagine there being a great stone wall that has been torn down and replaced by sticks, but you can still see that a stone wall once stood there. • Metaphor: Their culture is gone the only part of them left is their “clay pots” that they once handmade, but the pots were sold and divided through sales. • Here with this question asked you see that they don’t know who they are anymore. Who they once were is now dead and gone. They have to follow their colonizers and adapt to their lifestyle, losing everything they once had from their own culture. • Describing that each year she and her tribe hope that one day they’ll find themselves again. Who they used to be in their native land, rather than who they are now that they were colonized. They hope that one day it will all return to them.

9. Work Cited Information http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/colonialism http://www.brocku.ca/english/courses/4F70/postcol.php http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postcolonialism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postcolonial_literature http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/postcolonial Pictures http://egregores.blogspot.com/2010_04_27_archive.html http://whenturtlesfly.blogspot.com/2009/09/wendy-rose-hopimiwok.html