Examples Of Post Colonialism

Linda in her study elaborates that it could simply separate Canadians in three kinds: native Canadians, migrants from former suzerain and migrants from other countries. As a native Canadian, Linda thinks that they could not ignore the experience of colonization that made Canada becomes marginalization through post-colonialism. Here she pointed out Quebec, which is colonized by France, is a good example about first imperial force of pre-colonial history. In 1608, French explorers arrived Quebec and made it became French colony. After the Seven Years War between Britain and France, they signed the Treaty of Paris and ceded Quebec to Britain in 1763. Under the colonized of Britain, Quebec could keep speaking French and keep French culture, which

There is a kind of phenomenon named “psychological effects of a colonial past”, and Linda explains that some parts of Canada still feel like they are colonized, and it seems like that Canada does not make people feel the real central, culturally or politically belong to itself as a nation, just feel like a “deep sense of marginality”. So that she thinks Canada could be called a Third World like the West Indies or Africa or India because of its post-colonial culture; also, the culture already effected by British for long time’s colonized after France and by America for the strong American culture hegemony, which make people hard to find out the original Canadian culture, something they own that could represent their cultural identities. Art as a part of Culture, with post-colonialism, there is post-modernism as similar as post-colonialism, but they are not the same notion. Therefore, it is easy to see that no matter post-colonialism or post-modernism, Linda still mentions that it cannot get out of colonialism, and the countries like Canada need to rebuild the self-awareness for this

To build Canada's national identity and its heritage into a form of social and cultural construction by discursive strategies. Thinking about discourse, it is a competition of different positions in the field; and only the most powerful one can easily hold the discourse power and voice with the most significant volume. That is why the voice is a very important thing; also, only the voice can express their own positions and can be fighting for the rights for themselves. In Yaying’s study, she discusses the minority positioning through some novels for the generic crossing. Many writers record and reflect the fear of Canadian’s colonial experience and the colonial tendency of American culture from its bully neighborhood, as well as the shadow of this experience and the fear in the contemporary Canadian heart into the literature, in order to challenge the European or American culture’s leading role or central position in Canada. Now multiculturalism has become a mainstream ideology in Canada, and it is a profound influence to build the real social harmony for the multi-ethnic country. While many writers through their literatures voice the loud and clear volume for the equality of different ethnic groups. At the end, Yaying argues that to destroy the truculence impact of colonial power, people need to rewrite knowledge, legal and cultural