#(and also its more modern inheritors eg apocalypse now and the Doing An Imperialism Makes Our Soldiers Sad genre of war story)
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Aimé Césaire saying that colonization works to decivilize the colonizer truly lives in my head rent-free
#this is the essence of the v problematic anticolonial critique in so much 19thc literature (eg heart of darkness) right?#(and also its more modern inheritors eg apocalypse now and the Doing An Imperialism Makes Our Soldiers Sad genre of war story)#it glosses right over the crucial 'systems of rapacious cruelty are bad IN THEIR OWN RIGHT BECAUSE BROWN PEOPLE ARE HUMAN' bit#but in that one limited sense - that cruelty also brutalizes the perpetrators - it is very much the same critique#anyway i guess my brain continues to find ways to circle back round to discourse on colonialism no matter the initial topic#lit tag#no more war#imperialism#imperial violence always comes home#cultures of dissociation#aimé césaire#i am also choosing to tag this#sherlock holmes#as like solidly 98% of the stories in which the murderer is a former colonial officer or official are ROILING w this exact anxiety#(especially the hella racist ones. lol.)#i mean loads of authors in that time period are doing it but i have a tag for acd so.#my posts
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