Postcolonialism - Post-colonial Nations

Post-colonial Nations

As a critical literary theory, post-colonialism deals with the literature(s) produced in countries that once were colonies of the European colonial imperial powers such as Britain, France, and Spain; occasionally, post-colonial literary study includes countries in current colonial arrangements. Post-colonial literary study also includes the literature(s), written by the citizens of colonial countries, wherein the subject matter comprises portraits of the colonized peoples and their colonial lives as imperial subjects. In Dutch literature, a specific colonial and post-colonial literary sub-genre is Indies Literature, named for the Dutch East Indies, wherein the subject matters are the formation of a post-colonial identity and the post-colonial culture produced by the diaspora of the Indo-European peoples, a (Eurasian) community who originated from Indonesia; the principal author was Tjalie Robinson. Colonized people, especially the subaltern peoples comprised by the British Empire, usually attended university in the Imperial Motherland, and, because of their access to education, created new, post-colonial criticism. In the late twentieth century, after the dissolution of the USSR (1991), the constituent soviet socialist republics became the literary subjects of post-colonialism.

Post-colonial literary study presents two analytic categories of literature, that of the post-colonial nations, and that of the nations who have continued to forge a post-colonial national identity, which literature usually presents and analyszes the internal challenges inherent to detyermining an ethnic identity within a nation. The second pattern that is seen in postcolonial nations has been associated with the degeneration of civic nationalist unity when it comes to the wake of parochial which is ethnic nation-protecting. This is done by narrowing the patrimonial regimes that are based to cling to power by relying on an exclusive pattern of rule. This is seen in the worst cases in areas such as Rwanda, Somalia, Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The nation state simply breaks apart into either separate communal movements being the no nationalist aggrandizing goals or the mixed interethnic movements with separatist goals. In both of these cases there is a big support by the military resources and a big social support to make sure that the perpetuation of relativity circumscribed territorial goals.