COLONIALISM AND IMPERIALISM
COLONIALISM AND ITS ANALYSIS
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Intelligent
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Detailed explanation-1: -Colonial/Imperial Discourse in Robinson Crusoe Defoe, through Crusoe, depicts the history of the building of the British Empire by presenting the solitary image of an individual. Defoe portrays Crusoe as such an intelligent and ingenious human being that he is able to build up his colonizer identity.
Detailed explanation-2: -Colonial representation relies on political images which are constructed by the ideas of power and domination over “others.” This type of representation is “man made”, so colonial representation is a kind of colonial discourse which creates a false Ideology.
Detailed explanation-3: -Western colonialism, a political-economic phenomenon whereby various European nations explored, conquered, settled, and exploited large areas of the world.
Detailed explanation-4: -Postcolonial theory is built in large part around the concept of Otherness. The concept of Otherness sees the world “as divided into mutually excluding opposites: if the Self is ordered, rational, masculine, good, then the Other is chaotic, irrational, feminine, and evil” (www.faculty.mccfl.edu) .