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WHAT IS POST-COLONIAL?
Post-colonial is an era after colonies achieved their freedom
from European colonization. In this era, there are many
resistances to colonialism because they want to seek their
identity to prove their independence. Many people from the
formed colonized countries made some literature that
contains some problems or consequences after colonization
and the theme often relates to political, cultural
independence, gender, ethnicity, culture, racialism and
colonialism. It’s called as post-colonial literature.
 Characteristics of Post-colonial
1. Metanarrative 2. Decolonization

Europeans telling their stories about enlightening the Writers began to emerge and decolonize politics
colonized countries made the writers feel and thought through their writings. The
disapproved of it. Writers use metanarratives to draw decolonization of the mind had different meanings
attention to how the story is told from their point of for each writer at that time, but the idea contained
view. in their writings remained the same, to gain mental
and cultural freedom from the structure and
philosophy of colonialism.
 Characteristics of Post-colonial
3. Colonialism 4. Racism
A foreigner or colonizer who takes and enforces all Race became manufactured in ideological efforts to
rights and then does something with his will legitimize the colonial project. Specifically, under the
certainly destroys the environment, culture, and auspices of colonialism, race became conflated with
livelihoods of the indigenous people who are being ontology through the propagation of deterministic
colonized. Often the colonizer's language displaced theories that inextricably linked one’s behavior with
indigenous languages. the colour of one’s skin. Where the social status and
body of white people get special privileges.
Many people abandoned indigenous religions after
being converted to Christianity by missionaries.
Even the postcolonial "nations" that emerged after
independence were modeled along Western-style
European nations, with the same type of
administrative and bureaucratic setup.
 Example
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

The setting takes place in fictional village in Nigeria, called Umuofia.

Things Fall Apart is all about the “collapse, breaking into pieces,
chaos, and confusion” of traditional Igbo culture that suffers at the
hand of the white man’s arrival in Umuofia along with his religion.
(Kanelemang, 2013)

We could see one of few characteristics in Postcolonial literature,

metanarrative, showed in this novel. At that time colonizers like to tell
a certain story that Europeans were the masters and rulers, and
Achebe’s novel pointing out how the colonizers tell such stories in
ways that do no justice to the colonized.
 Example
Black Skin, White Mask by Frantz Fanon
The “black problem” for Fanon is the experienced inferiority of black
people, which is created by the white society, so that black man tries
to put on white mask in order to assimilate the white man and to
pretend to be white. He is doing so by behaving, looking and
speaking like a white man and tries to get rid of his stereotypes.
(Mohring, 2017, p.9)

But we could see on the another side, it is not the black man who
wears white masks but rather the white man who puts his stereotypes
(masks) on the black man’s face. Because the white man is
stereotyping the black man, the black man cannot get rid of
stereotypes. (Mohring, 2017, p.10)

We could see one of postcolonial characteristic in literature,

decolonization. Decolonization not only about dismantling colonist
power but also refers to decolonize of mind from the colonizers idea.
 The influence of post-colonial on
literature:
1. Involves elements of history and social
context.
2. Literature is seen as forming a strong
hegemony of power
3. Show how culture and politics work
together
4. There are many syntactic combinations
5. Focusing attention on the centrality of
language and the various processes of
marginalization undermined by
complementary societies
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