Colonialism In Doris Lessing's Narrative Of The Life Of Frederick Douglass

Mills 17 states that “the discourse establishes what is natural as well as unnatural, and as a result the unnatural is looked down on.” This is also how Africa is portrayed through Doris Lessing’s work in The grass is singing. The way she portrays Africa can be due to the fact that she was a liberal writer.

In King Solomon’s Mines (1885) by Sir H. Rider Hagger, the relationships amongst the white and African people are portrayed. It also portrays some Africans in their traditional literary past as barbarians but, on the other hand, Shows the other side of Africans as heroes and heroines. It shows that they have a lot of respect for their cultures as well. A lot of the colonialist attitudes are also expressed in King Solomon’s Mines.

In the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American

Colonialism as defined by OED (2013 p.217) refers to “the policy or practice of acquiring full or partial political control over another country, occupying it with settlers, and exploiting it economically.” Therefore, post-colonialism is sometimes assumed to refer to “after colonialism” or “after-independence” (Ashcroft et al. 12) describing the wide range of social, cultural and political events arising specifically from the decline and fall of European colonialism that took place after World War II (McEwan 2009, p.18)

Post-colonialism expresses the opposite idea of colonialism. Hence, post-colonialism literature is a consequence of colonialism. Post-colonialism continues to be a process of hostility and reform. One scholar suggested that although most countries have gained independence from their colonizers, they are still indirectly subjected in one way or another to the forms of neo-colonial domination. (Ashcroft et al.