For Better or For Worst They Were Here to Stay Throughout history colonization has impacted countries, homes, and cultures. Through blunt force and aggression colonizers have conquered and occupied many countries. These same oppressors take the lives of what many cherish and believe in to make it a value of sort, making the natives of these countries change the way they view their homes. A primal example would be Christopher Columbus; he “discovered” the new world and called it his own. Many other countries will continue to do so for many years after him. He did not take into consideration the homes, cultures, and lives that were already living there. He claimed it as his own and used the land, its people, and their culture to create his “new …show more content…
She like many other authors uses literature to express and expose the results of colonization. Her tone and attacking narration set the mood throughout the text. Although her novel sets place in postcolonial times she reflects on both the present and the past. Jamaica Kincaid takes on a second person narration to attack the reader, whom is taking on the role as the colonizer, a narrative telling, and lastly a reflection to de-credit colonization and expose their corruption and greed. Kincaid “inverts the power if naming inherent in colonial discourse by saying in public what other Antiguans can say only in private” (Byerman). Antigua like man author played the role for her people, she was able to express exactly how everyone felt about …show more content…
She does however talk of her country and how she and many others have to live in the shambles England left it in. By shambles its not to imply physical debris although that also played a role, but by means of a corrupted government, lingering English culture, and of course the tourist stigma. As Byerman states “independence produced no real changes in the dominant order. The silencing of the people has continued even though the leaders are now from among them. Wealth and power are in the hands of a very few” (Byerman). As Kincaid continues to explain through her text although these countries have left and Antigua has its Independence, it is still shackled to colonial times. In the journal “The Persistent Effect of Colonialism and Corruption” by Luis Angeles and Kyriakos Neanidis, they entertain the idea of how when a country is run by both a colonizer and the countries government officials; they are prone to high levels of corruption. In which case Antigua was both occupied by England and Antiguan government officials. Angeles and Neanidis imply that, the level of development is well recognized as the most powerful determinant of corruption. If European settlement leads to economic development… then it will also lead to higher level of corruption” (Angeles, Neanidis
While some americans may agree with tecumseh, many others would maintain their belief that the natives were not entitled to land because of their savagery. Yet, by paralleling land to
Although the US was rapidly expanding, he had no right to take land from helpless Natives. The Indians had done nothing wrong, yet still Jackson ruthlessly extracted them from their own land. Consequently, thousands of them died whilst moving west, because of the destitute conditions that Jackson had put upon
He declared the area legally a “vacuum” and stated that the land was not “subdued” by the Indians so they had no civil right to it- only a natural right that held no ground in a court of law. They also tried to use bible verses to justify their actions by twisting the meanings. For example, they used Psalms 2:8 to justify taking land- specially the part where it says “…and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.” They also used Romans 13:2 to excuse themselves for using excessive force on the Indians when taking land- specifically the part where it says “…and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation.” Maybe he thought he really was doing the right thing and carrying out God’s plan though as he read the phrase “the ordinance of God” in Romans
Michelle Cliff’s short story Down the Shore conspicuously deals with a particularly personal and specific, deeply psychological experience, in order to ultimately sub-textually create a metaphor regarding a wider issue of highly social nature. More specifically, the development of the inter-dependent themes of trauma, exploitation, as well as female vulnerability, which all in the case in question pertain to one single character, also latently extend over to the wider social issue of colonialism and its entailing negative repercussions, in this case as it applies to the Caribbean and the British Empire. The story’s explicit personal factor is developed through the literary techniques of repetition, symbolism, metaphor, as well as slightly warped albeit telling references to a distinct emotional state, while its implicit social factor is suggested via the techniques of allusion, so as to ultimately create a generally greater, undergirding metaphor.
It is fair to argue that dissecting one’s own ignorance is not an easy task to accomplish without a great capacity for self-analysis. In her essay “In History”, Jamaica Kincaid appears to criticize herself by exposing her ignorance and vulnerability to her readers. Why would she want to be criticized in this way? Is she challenging her readers by openly inviting them to judge her—yet also hinting at the fact that they should observe their own limitations? Indeed, this is precisely what Kincaid does, and she chooses the perfect theme through which to explore~ the flaws of her thought-process: history.
He wanted settlers to come to the new land so he sent them off. The Cherokee indians were living there at the time, but they were peaceful. Everything was going well in the new land. Andrew Jackson was happy that they were settling good, so he started sending more and more people over to the new land. They needed more space for the settlers, so they started kicking the cherokee people off of their land.
While he claims that he's trying to help Natives against discrimination. It's obvious he was trying to use that as a cover up so he could have the land because the Supreme Court declined
As the world approached the 20th century, several powers grew desperate far more land and more control. Between the 1870 and 1900 years, Africa and Asia faced European imperialist aggression, diplomatic pressures, military invasion, and eventual conquest and colonization. The event that happened in Africa and Asia during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries had pushed African and Asian to make important political decisions in order to properly respond to Western imperialism. In that period, neither African people or Asian had the power to stand against to the Western imperialism, and eventually both continents had to sign unequal treaties that forced them to open their ports and cities to foreign merchants.
In the short story “Blackness” by Jamaica Kincaid, the narrator’s consciousness develops through a process of realization that she does not have to choose between the culture imposed on her and her authentic heritage. First, the narrator explains the metaphor “blackness” for the colonization her country that fills her own being and eventually becomes one with it. Unaware of her own nature, in isolation she is “all purpose and industry… as if [she] were the single survivor of a species” (472). Describing the annihilation of her culture, the narrator shows how “blackness” replaced her own culture with the ideology of the colonizers.
Native Americans had once dominated the land now called America, but eventually, their lives would be destroyed by European Colonization. In arrival/ settlement of Europeans, a drastic change for Native Americans occurred forcing them to submit to White settlers, choosing between assimilation into a White culture or preserving their heritage and ancestry. A number of negative results would occur including disease, loss of land, and loss right of self-governing, with no remorse to Native American culture. At this point in time five Indian tribes are recognized as civilized, those being; Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Muscogee-Cree, and Seminole Indians, because of their acceptance to the acculturation that George Washington had proposed.
Many people who take trips to other countries use it to escape the boredom of their own life and to have fun in another country. Taking vacations can provide excitement when heading to different locales, give a person the tastes and sights of a new place, and overall provide a sense of pleasure to a tourist. However, there is an aspect of this that many tourists do not get to see. In her essay A Small Place, author Jamaica Kincaid makes this aspect very clear. Kincaid, along with many other natives of foreign islands, believes that tourists are “ugly human being[s]” who seemingly feed off the boredom and desperation of the natives of a certain place, creating a source of pleasure for themselves (Kincaid 262).
In her thought provoking essay “In History,” author Jamaica Kincaid explores the idea of naming things in a historical context through various anecdotes. Kincaid makes a purposeful choice to tell her story non chronologically, beginning with the tale of Columbus, putting her own reflection on plant nomenclature in the middle, and ending with an overview of Carl Linnaeus, the inventor of the plant naming system. This choice gives Kincaid the opportunity to fully vet out each point that she makes, an opportunity she wouldn’t have gotten had she written her essay in chronological order. Throughout each anecdote that Kincaid tells, the theme of names and giving things names is central. Kincaid argues that by giving something a name, one unrightfully takes ownership of it and erases its history.
Jamaica Kincaid writes “girl” A story or poem that is something like a lecture from a mother figure to a daughter figure. There is an enormous amount of ways to present the tone. The tone of “Girl” is loving, caring, but strict. Jamaica uses literary devices to achieve the tone. She uses characters, setting, plot, point of view and style to establish a tone.
In Jamaica Kincaid’s essay “On Seeing England for the First Time”, she clearly voices her animosity towards the one place her whole life surrounded as a child in hopes of persuading her audience into understanding that there is a fine line between dreams and realities. As an adult, Kincaid finally is able to travel to England to witness firsthand what all the hype was about and why her childhood and education happened to be based around the fantasy customs of this country. Noticing that every detail of her life revolved around England, from the way she ate her food to the naming of her family members, Kincaid found her hatred growing more and more. Coming from a British colony, the obsession with England drove Kincaid crazy to the point that she finally traveled there one day. She says, “The space between the idea of something and its reality is always wide and deep and dark” (37).
they have unkindly deceived them and stole their territory; they enforced them to travel in place they have never been in a harshly environments which