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Ashcroft, Bill. On Post-Colonial Futures: Transformations of Colonial Culture. London: Continuum, 2001. Print.
Brydon, Diana. Postcolonialism: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies. London: Routledge, 2001. Print.
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The factor of Post-colonial being after colonization
is because it is the criticism of what the world was before described in literature, and the analysis of the effects society has had on literature. It is also the perception of the new wave of rule being compared to that of the times before.
Post-colonial literary theory has been used to interpret:
The representative article "Sherman Alexie's Autoethnography" suggest that "The post-colonial tend to come across here like the Lone Ranger and Tonto, slugging away in a ritualized turf war whose stakes from some angles might in fact appear rather trivial. The protagonists, of course, are stereotypes: a post colonialism global and homogeneous, and a version of post-modernism which tends to mean (in this debate) simply that which allows no political agency".
The representative article “Young Goodman Brown”: A Post-colonial Reading, states that "The loss of Goodman Brown’s hope, charity, and faith and the gloom of his end foreshadow the same in Puritan society. The Puritans made financial success the product of divine grace and a sign of future salvation. But their success came at the expense of their Christian values and the ideals on which their society was based via the wholesale destruction of native civilizations on the continent". The article suggested that "Hawthorne’s story is more than a single man’s struggle with temptation. It is also representative of the Puritan undertaking generally. Both young Goodman Brown’s journey and the Puritan undertaking result in error and failure".
Postcolonialism describes a changing world, one that has changed by struggle and hopes to further change with the practice of its followers.
Using the subtle demand of equality and well-being of humans, through subjects such as literature.
The goal is to also make the concept known and be further represented by others.
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