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Discuss the concept of 'Double Colonization'; how do postcolonial women writers contest both patriarchy and colonialism.
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Discuss the concept of 'Double Colonization'; how do postcolonial women writers contest both patriarchy and colonialism. The term postcolonial refers to the condition of people and the country after the imperial rule was over and the British Empire receded back to Great Britain. The semantic definition includes the national or even aboriginal culture after the departure of the imperial power. And the term postcolonial continues to define the culture and literatures of the countries from the moment of colonization to this moment on. As the underdogs, the people in colonized countries sought to establish their difference from Britain. This paper is an effort to look at the patterns of colonization which is defined as a domination of one subject over other by any means, either physical or linguistic or cultural and to discuss the status of women as subjects of 'Double Colonization' in colonized countries. Like the colonized nations which dominated the...
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