Class 5 - The Colonized
Mythical portrait of the colonized
Questions:
1. How does the colonizer define the colonized? What are the characteristics of the colonized?
2. How does racisms and the concept of a protectorate play a role in the construction of the
colonized?
3. What stands at the basis of this construction?
4. Does the colonized partake in their construction?
Situations of the colonized
Questions:
1. How does the myth situate the colonized and what is the role of the social institutions?
2. What does it mean that the colonized is out of the game?
3. What is a colonized society? Take the following points under consideration:
- The role of religion
- The memory of the colonizer
- The role of language and literature
4. Did the colonized profit from colonialism?