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Defining colonialism

‘Colonialism is [...] both a specified political and economic project, and a larger discourse of hegemony (leadership/dominance) and superiority that is enlisted to drive and support that concrete political act. The colonial project involves the literal process of entering into a foreign territory and assuming control of its society and industry, and, on a more conceptual level, the post facto promulgation of a cultural ideology that justifies the colonizer’s presence on the basis of his superior knowledge and “civilization”.’

Jane Hiddleston, Understanding Postcolonialism (London: Acumen, 2009), p. 2.

Wendy Knepper, ‘Remapping the Crime Novel in the Francophone Caribbean, PMLA 122.5 (2007), 1431-1446 (1431)

‘Colonialism is [...] both a specified political and economic project, and a larger discourse of hegemony (leadership/dominance) and superiority that is enlisted to drive and support that concrete political act. The colonial project involves the literal process of entering into a foreign territory and assuming control of its society and industry, and, on a more conceptual level, the post facto promulgation of a cultural ideology that justifies the colonizer’s presence on the basis of his superior knowledge and “civilization”.’

Jane Hiddleston, Understanding Postcolonialism (London: Acumen, 2009), p. 2.

‘Colonialism is [...] both a specified political and economic project, and a larger discourse of hegemony (leadership/dominance) and superiority that is enlisted to drive and support that concrete political act. The colonial project involves the literal process of entering into a foreign territory and assuming control of its society and industry, and, on a more conceptual level, the post facto promulgation of a cultural ideology that justifies the colonizer’s presence on the basis of his superior knowledge and “civilization”.’

Jane Hiddleston, Understanding Postcolonialism (London: Acumen, 2009), p. 2.

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