/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.2964266]

Hello there, Americans!

I would like to ask you a question:
Have you read any postcolonial literature? (Doesn't matter what country) What are your thoughts on this?
Also, do you think that it is just to occupy/colonize/"benevolently assimilate" any "primitive" culture or country for whatever reason?

[Anonymous No.2964282]

No.
Don't care.
Yes.

[Anonymous No.2964289]

Scare quotes don't scare ME!

But seriously, what has "post-colonial" to do with literature? I understand it's a very important sociological phenomenon, but can a post-colonial writer still write about something that is not postcolonial? American literature, by definition, is postcolonial (insert European smirk here). It's a silly, contextual distinction, and I'd never read novels that are labeled as such for their label. I've read Foe (Coetzee) and Wide Sargasso Sea (Rhys) to see their take on the original. I know these are considered "post-colonial" literature.

[Anonymous No.2964290]

>>2964282
Faggot alert.
>>well that escalated quickly.

Thank you though, . for caring enough to post to tell us you don't care.

[Anonymous No.2964296]

>>2964289'

Wiki summarizes it well just like the textbooks I've read:
a body of literary writing that responds to the intellectual discourse of European colonization of the Middle East, Asia, and Africa. Post-colonial literature addresses the problems and consequences of the de-colonization of a country and of a nation, especially the political and cultural independence of formerly subjugated colonial peoples; and it also is a literary critique of and about post-colonial literature, the undertones of which carry, communicate, and justify racialist and colonialism.

>>You can't write fantasy and call it postcolonial, just because the writer is living in a postcolonial country.
>> Logical error.

And yes, Sargasso Sea was magnificent, especially if you come from a place such as my country.

[Anonymous No.2964299]

Yes. Assimilation is hard but it's worth it. I mean 80 years ago people were distinguished by their European ancestry, now they're distinguished by skin color. Who knows where we'll be in 50 years.

[Anonymous No.2964303]

>>2964299
>Yes. Assimilation is hard but it's worth it.

Wow.

>>2964266
>Also, do you think that it is just to occupy/colonize/"benevolently assimilate" any "primitive" culture or country for whatever reason?

What? Do I think that is the purpose of postcolonial literature? Uhh... it's a complete subversion of those things.

[Anonymous No.2964305]

>>2964299
by barcode, perhaps?

[Anonymous No.2964308]

>>2964305
You made me shudder. Do you remember about two years ago when the government almost brought in forced biometric ID cards?

[Anonymous No.2964309]

>>2964303
uuhhh... that is a related but entirely different question from postcolonial lit.

[Anonymous No.2964311]

>>2964308
Yes, I do, Mr. 12565245

[Anonymous No.2964326]

>>2964296
That's contextual, and I can find responses to colonialist discourse in any work by a writer with a post-colonial background. It's the problem of any contextual movement that has situated itself within the discipline of literary studies.

>You can't write fantasy and call it postcolonial, just because the writer is living in a postcolonial country
No, I said you cannot NOT call it post-colonial. So much for logical errors.

Then there's this bigoted question. Split into parts:
>do you think that it is just to occupy any culture or country for whatever reason?
No, not for "whatever reason"
>do you think that it is just to colonize any culture or country for whatever reason?
No, not for "whatever reason"
>do you think that it is just to benevolently assimilate any culture or country for whatever reason?
Yes, I do support this. Benevolent assimilation and cross-fertilization is only natural, after all.
>do you think that it is just to colonize any "primitive" culture or country for whatever reason?
This is probably the question you wanted to ask. It is a complex one, and who's to say? The people of some ex-colonized countries might feel they were better off (in their view, not mine, or yours) then than they are now. Others might not.

[Anonymous No.2964331]

>>2964326
LOL Benevolent assimilation = natural.

[Anonymous No.2964605]

might makes right

[Anonymous No.2964620]

I absolutely see American literature as post-colonial, but then again I am British. All the same marks of cultural anxiety, the uneasy relationship with a sublime natural setting and a sort of nearly childlike feeling of independence.