Essays on Colonialism

Edward Said was a Palestinian literary activist and theorist following the French philosopher Michel Foucault and post-modernists. He was a key theorist of the post-colonial movement, aiming to put race and ethnicity into social theory. Foucault was a great influence on the development of Said’s...

Prior to initiate colonization, the writing centres were mostly found in the West and the Easterns did not know how to write in English. But during and after colonialism, the people of the colonized countries started to write in English and postcolonial literature became a...

In this present paper, I would like to focus on the issue of Orientalism in the academia and see in what sense the Islamization of knowledge is a way out of it. Thus, my research question would be in what sense the decolonization of Orientalism...

Heart of Darkness is a novel by Joseph Conrad written in 1899 which tells a story of a protagonist called Marlow who is a sailor and gets a job in ‘the company’ to be a captain of a steamship that takes an adventure and journeys...

Racism has always been a polarizing subject in the academic world. That polarization becomes even worse when we deal with extreme acts of racism from the past. A simple accusation of whether a text or opinion is racist can cause scholars who are emotionally affected...

In Joesph Conrad’s novella, Heart of Darkness, he represents European colonization through the character Mr. Kurtz. Through Marlow’s exploration and interactions with him, he exposes that Kurtz’s behaviours represent the wishes of the industry who created him the Company. Joseph Conrad shows Kurtz’s greedy and...

During the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, was the Age of Imperialism, or also known as the “Scramble for Africa”. The Europeans saw Africa as vulnerable and weak, so they easily invaded the villages and deprived them of their resources. The novel, Things Fall Apart,...

The colonization of the Caribbean, by the Europeans, brought about massive changes not only to the architectural landscape of the islands but to the economy, language, and much more. I will explore how the Europeans, looking to not only stake claim to these islands for...

This essay discusses the significance of the History House in Arundhati Roy’s ‘The God of Small things’. The novel ‘The God of Small Things’ narrates about the twins’ childhood experience whose lives were ruined by the “love laws” that stipulated how and who should be...

‘The God of Small Things’ is a semi-autobiographical novel, a debut novel and only novel written the by the popular Indian author- activists, Arundhati Roy. The novel is centered on the twins Rahel and Esthappen, who part in their youth and united later in their...