English 4400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Caravel, Babalon, 1 Corinthians 13
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The pain from the colonized experiences from texts in modes of the gothic. Distortion and the hidden histories are defined within. Hidden histories bring about new perspectives and events. Colonization is where one nation or body moved into a territory and takes control. They then take social and political control, and cultures can be stripped of their values and practices, then treated in a condescending way. Although this occurred, in colonies of occupation, there was the possibility to hold onto elements of one"s culture. In slavery, entire bodies of people were being taken control of, and then removed. Colonization had plenty of movement; even in canada, natives were moved and pushed around, their lands taken over. In slavery, it was absolute dispossession, with their lands, languages, values, traditions, and even their own bodies were taken away. The spanish and portuguese came into the caribbean, eradicated the population, then used the land to extract resources.
