E 341 Lecture Notes - Post-Structuralism, Columbia University, Dialectic
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The erosion of the colonized culture and language. Even where local culture managed to survive, colonization spread a fundamental sense of alienation and unease in the native population. On the one hand, colonizer"s contempt for colonized language and culture is obvious, on the other, access to socio-economic power required embracing the colonizer"s behavior and language, becoming acceptable . Colonization is a traumatic experience that erodes the individual"s identity and restructures in complex, fractured ways. The legacy of colonization is a fundamental hybridity in consciousness and sense of self. Resistance to colonizer often took the form of orthodox adherence to original culture and religion. These contradictions led to societies with a lot of contradictions, splits, loyalties, linguistic stratification. Loomba"s definition: colonialism can be defined as the conquest and control of other people"s land and goods. ". But, as she notes, colonization in this way is a constant feature of history from inca.
