Introduction
considering post is
a prefix meaning after. So first we have to discuss relation between Colonized
and colonizer during colonialism. During colonial power. One country who is
economically reach is controls over another country. They are exploited and
humiliated. So their relation is considered as
“ Master-Slave
Relationship”
This kind of relation find between Negro people and white
people.
Definition of colonized and colonizer
Colonizer:
is someone who
helps to find a colony.
Colonizer is consider as master.
White man is colonizer.
Colonized:
Inhabited by colonies.
Colonized is consider as slave.
So, colonialism refers to the process of colonization, to
the idea of empire, to the encounter between two culture colonized and
colonizer. During colonialism black people are humiliated and exploited by
colonizer. So, in reaction of this colonialism. Writers writes literature and
it known as
Post
colonialism
Postcolonial critics and theorist should
consider the full implications of restricting. The meaning of the term
“ after-colonialism or after independence’’
Post colonialism is an outcome of unequal treatment of
indigenous people in settler. All this testify to the fact that post
cololonialism because of it’s oppositional nature.
postcolonial
literature focuses on
“Race relations & effect of racism”
Basic thing about post colonialism is deconstruction of old-Fashioned
perceptions and attitudes of
Power and oppression
For centuries the colonial
suppressor imposed his civilized vales on the native. So decolonization is a
process of change, an attempt to regain and lose power. In which natives had to
learn how to pt independence in to practice and colonial power had to accept
loss of power over foreign countries.
Here
are some of the examples of post-colonial text.post-colonial writers challenged
‘white people are better’
Relation of colonizer & colonized in Edwaed Said’s Orientalism
Edward Said is very prominant writer of post-colonialism. He was grew up
in Egypt and Palestine, but his entire education was western. His book Orientalism
offers insight about colonialism from the perspective of one who has been colonized.
Basic idea of this book is
“East is constructed by west”
Orient is refers to Aarbs and
Islam
Occident is refers to west or
European country
Orientalism means constellation of false assumption that western
attitudes have towards the middle East, A central idea of Orientalism is that
Western knowledge of east is not generated from reality, but from preconceive
notions. Edward follows the idea of Michel Foucault emphasized on relationship
between “power & knowledge in scholarly and popular thinking, European
views of the Islamic, Aarab world. According to some critics with the start of
colonialism the European come in contact with the lesser developed countries of
the East. In which Edward said argued that Europeans divided the world in to
two parts.
East-west
Occident-Orient
European used Orientalism to define themselves. Some particular
attributes were associated with the orentals weren’t the occident were.
Occident-
v Civilized
v Superior
v They have created certain image about orientals
v According to them ‘it was their duty towards the
world to civilize the uncivilized.
Orient-
v Uncivilized
v Inferior
v Their identity was constructed by West.
To
civilize them westerner had to colonize and rule the orients. One of the most
important use of Orientalism to the European was that they defined themselves
by defining the Orientals. They generalize the culture of the orients.
Orientals are considered as lazy, irrational, and uncivilized and
savages. So, automatically the Europeans became active, rational, civilized and
sophisticated. so this kind of relationship between colonized and colonizer in
Edward Said’s Orientalism.
Another example is Frantz Fanon’s
Black skin White Mask
This book is about Psychology of the Black or colonized people
under the influence of colonialism. It is focuses on racial discrimination.
Black Man & Language
Language is
constructed by man so obviously it is connected with the power of colonizer. He
gives an example of French colonizer. Black people in Martinique had to speak
French language because it is language of power. Black people believed that
white man’s language gives them equality. But if they speak French language
perfect French does not considered superior. They are treated as Black people.
For e.g We are speaking English language we are not considered
as English man.
.
Relation of colonized and Colonizer is connected with color
of skin.
Black skin is associated with inferiority complex. white skin is
associated with superiority complex. Black people are colonized and white
people are colonizer. Black people have desire for white skin because they want
to be equal. Because of their desire for white skin they loses their own
culture, language & their identity also.
Conclusion
Thus, by
concluding we can say that both the book is about power & relationship of
colonized and colonizer.
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