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#it glosses right over the crucial 'systems of rapacious cruelty are bad IN THEIR OWN RIGHT BECAUSE BROWN PEOPLE ARE HUMAN' bit
chamerionwrites
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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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