Postcolonial Theory Chealsey-lynn Lamirante What is colonialism? Noun the control or governing influence of a nation over a dependent country, territory, or people.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] What is post colonialism? Adjective of or pertaining to the period following a state of colonialism.the Postcolonial Theory attempts to focus on the oppression of those who were ruled under colonization. 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. Wendy Rose Long Division: A Tribal History Our skin loosely lies across grass borders; stones loading up are loaded down with placement sticks, a great tearing and appearance of holes. We are bought and divided into clay pots; we die on granite scaffolding on the shape of the Sierras and lie down with lips open thrusting songs on the world. Who are we and do we still live? The doctor, asleep, says no. So outside of eternity we struggle until our blood has spread off our bodies and frayed the sunset edges. It's our blood that gives you those southwestern skies. Year after year we give, harpooned with hope, only to fall bouncing through the canyons, our sings decreasing with distance. I suckle coyotes and grieve. Poem So outside of eternity we struggle until our blood has spread off our bodies and frayed the sunset edges. It's our blood that gives you those southwestern skies. Year after year we give, harpooned with hope, only to fall bouncing through the canyons, our sings decreasing with distance. I suckle coyotes and grieve. Our skin loosely lies across grass borders; stones loading up are loaded down with placement sticks, a great tearing and appearance of holes. We are bought and divided into clay pots; we die on granite scaffolding on the shape of the Sierras and lie down with lips open thrusting songs on the world. Who are we and do we still live? The doctor, asleep, says no. Postcolonial Theory 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 dont 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 theyll 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. Work Cited InformationPictures hopimiwok.html