George Orwell’s second novel, Burmese Days, one of his first major works tells the fictional story of John Flory, set in the waning days of colonialism in Burma. One of the pinnacle novels on colonialism, Orwell critiques the various forms of colonialism, the militaristic, economic and cultural imperialism he saw during his time in Burma ...
What if one were in a never ending nightmare of fear for the majority of their life caused by someone who had the same blood connection? What if every blink of an eye parallel to every turn of a page of someone’s life consisted of secrecy, violence, or double standards? But what would one do ...
As a child I distanced myself from my Filipino roots. The thought of the Philippines actually having a fashion sense summed up to loin cloth wearing tribal men or hand me downs from Spanish colonialism. Other then that, Filipinos I knew wore the same clothes as we wear in the states. But every once and ...
David Mandessi Diop (1927 – 1960) was a revolutionary African poet born in France but with parents of West African descent. His poems highlighted problems of Africa brought about by colonialism and gave a message to Africans to bring about change and freedom. He was known for his involvement in the negritude movement in France, ...
Frantz Fanon and Aime Cesaire both defined and explained colonialism and decolonization from a political, philosophical, historical, and socio-cultural perspective. Both authors wrote for the colonized, Fanon in Wretched of the Earth (1963) and Cesaire in Discourse on Colonialism (1972). Fanon and Cesaire aimed to define colonialism and its constructs, the psychology of colonialism and ...
