The New Moon's Arms: A Cultural Analysis

Themes of dislocation and loss through memory are also apparent in the transition of Constancia’s physical appearance to be identical to that of her mother’s. Constancia’s past creeped into her life

Chapter eight of Hooks briefly talks about neocolonialism by defining it as the focus “on who has conquered a territory, who has ownership, who has the right to rule” (hooks 2000). She puts into context the idea that white wealthy women have taken on colonialism when it comes to feminism by putting their problems as the priority and ruling problems that are seen by the world. Since they are the powerful ones their “feminist roles” are viewed at the real roles of feminism as more attention is brought them making those who do not fit in the wealthy white women in the shadows. I thought it was interesting that she used terms normally associated with the conquering and taking of land from the less powerful to describe what feminism has come to

As time passed, European domination drastically altered the African landscape – both physically and culturally. Traditional roles, practices, and beliefs were either completely subverted or modified to fall in line with European cultural ideals. Doubtlessly, this process of subjugation worked to the detriment of native populations throughout the continent. Even though all members of indigenous communities have suffered under this system, African women remain especially vulnerable to its harmful effects. As Mary Kolawole points out in her comprehensive work, Womanism and African Consciousness, these women must confront a set of oppressions unique to their position as both black Africans and women. During her discussion of African women’s current struggle for recognition, Kolawole argues that, although colonialism displaced many African traditions, the patriarchal social structure remained. In many ways, she holds, European colonization widened the rift between African men and women even further (Kolawole 34). Although African and European traditions share in the elevation of the male over the female, most African cultures offered women a greater position of respect within society, as well as more “positive avenues of self-liberation” than were available to European women

Unfortunately, Rachel Price’s narrow-minded attitude remains stagnant into late adulthood. The Equatorial where Rachel’s “proudest achievement[s]” lie alludes to the imaginary line that divides up the world, establishing how Rachel’s accomplishments lie on a unjust foundation (462). Fittingly, her “own little world” (462) is upheld by her “standards of white supremacy” (28).The word “world” suggests to the reader the illustration of a European explorer charting the globe for unknown lands to redeem as his own. It frames the painting of colonialism and segregation to the reader, as Rachel “can run [her world] exactly however [she] please”, further alluding to the image of a white colonist dictating and exploiting the lives of “local boys” and “punish [them] with a firm hand” (462). Rachel’s self-appointed responsibility of policing her African staff with violence only gives more weight to her internalized ignorance, prolonged by her stay in the Congo and unwavered by the years. Unlike her siblings’ change of heart over the years, Rachel’s exposure to Africa only reiterates her initial belief of how “these people here can’t decide anything for themselves” (480), suggesting how she sees them as lesser than her, as a docile child who remains incapable of assertion. All in all, Rachel’s unfazed ignorance

I am reading a book called The Empire Of The Summer Moon. This book is about the Comanche tribe, when reading this book it makes me realize how much the American government has done for its people in the past. Which honestly in my opinion insnt very much, it's always been the people of this nation that has gotten us through the hard times. This book shows the charisma, boldness, and strength of the American people during the mid 1800s. I enjoy this book greatly because i am learning about my heritage and where I came from and what it took for me to get here.

Postcolonial critiques of literary works are often accomplished by reading and interpreting the work with a specific theme in mind or a ‘lens’. By allowing oneself to use a ‘lens’ when reading specific works, it allows the reader to interpret the effects of the themes and the changes throughout the writings. The goal of the critical lens is to seek to understand the behavior of characters or the society ("Post Colonialism," 2016). A few of the most popular themes used to view literary works are identity, oppression and power; applying this ‘lens’ can give the reader a different perspective and experience while reading the writings.

The 1960s, including the dark social developments of the period, are an obstruction to understanding the present states of African Americans, contends Clarence Lang. While Americans commend the present commemorations of different dark flexibility breakthroughs and the decision of the first dark president, the impacts of neoliberalism since the 1970s have been especially destroying to African Americans. Amid the four centuries of the Trans-Atlantic slave exchange individuals from several distinctive ethnic gatherings with incomprehensibly different dialects and societies were conveyed to the New World from districts of Africa extending four thousand miles along the mainland 's Atlantic Coast (Lang, 2012).

The moon is one of God’s most fascinating creations. It is responsible for so much more than most people realize. Man has studied the moon for thousands of years to try and understand its mysteries. These studies show that the moon is a very important resource for planet Earth. The moon affects Earth by providing light at night, controlling the tides, and by slowing our planet’s rotation.

In Winter the last book of the Lunar Chronicles series, Cinder, Kai, Cress, Thorne, and Wolf plan to start a revolution on Luna and give the title of queen to the true heir of the throne, Princess Selene also known as, Cinder. On Luna, they make allies and build an army to stop Queen Levana and her wicked actions. Meanwhile, in the Lunar Kingdom Winter, the crazy ill princess with no royal blood and her long time best friend Jacin try to escape the kingdom with the help of prisoner Scarlet, an ally and friend of Cinder. Later on, they find Cinder and help her battle against Queen Levana. Which, would then result to them overthrowing, Levana and living happily for the rest of their days.

This is an exceptional story. When the Moon Was Ours follows an inseparable friends Miel and Sam. They live in a town where everything is cloaked with mystery and secrecy. There's spectacular trans representation, wide spectrum of gender identity, cultural threads, lyricism, and romance. If you love luminous writing, ambiguous plots accompanied by breathtaking characters, you need to read it immediately. It would put stars and wonder in your eyes. It is rich, imaginative. It’s the cult classic, magical realism you surely don’t want to miss.

The cover of Winter contains a hand holding a shining apple which refers to the basis for the book, Snowwhite. All of the books in The Lunar Chronicles are based from the classic fairytales such as Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, and Rapunzel. The main character of this book is a Lunar princess named Winter, hence the title. Winter is the fourth book of the series written by Marissa Meyer who is well known for The Lunar Chronicles and other various short stories. All of the stories in The Lunar Chronicles are all directed towards different ages but Winter is definitely the youngest with how childlike Winter acts.

Third World Newsreel’s history reflects an investment in anticolonial struggles, as its works were critical to disseminate a range of images and voices hidden from the U.S. public view. The concern with the larger context of struggle sought to concretely connect local struggles in urban communities of color to larger Third World dynamics. An emerging and intensifying effort to recruit Third world people would give birth to an institution that strived to provide a language for national minorities facing the same structures underpinning the evils of colonialism. An establishment driven to educate communities of color, the Newsroom’s inability to adequately distinguish class or race and its new found common desire to forge links between Third World and U.S. communities would motivate the foundation of Third World Newsreel.

That Dinkum Thinkum is the first of three sections in the book Moon is a Harsh Mistress. It is set in Luna City in the late 21st Century. Luna City is one of the colonies of the moon , made as a permanent exile for hard case criminals. It’s made as a permanent exile because after remaining on luna for about a month, without aid, one physiology changes making it near impossible to for them to return to earth; So Luna’s population is predominantly ex-convicts and descendants of ex-cons in domed cities.

Although the Moon completes one orbit of Earth with respect to the stars about every 27.3 days, the Moon revolves around Earth once with respect to the sun in about 29.5 days following a slightly elliptical path at an average distance of 384,000 km. The Moon's gravitational force is nine times less than the Earth's, which means that you would weigh nine times less on the Moon. The Moon is a dead world with no atmosphere. The sky is always dark, and you can see the stars and Sun at the same

As it stands in our modern age, both the general public at large and scholars within all factions of academia have acknowledged the horrific documented abuses perpetrated by colonial powers from the Age of Exploration to the present day. Similarly, the mechanics behind the oppression of women have been exhaustively researched and debated over. However, if one is to analyze and compare literature born out of the height of the colonial age, and literature released within our own lifetime, they may actually arguably find very little difference in how they characterize women; in particular, there seems to still be a racial element of subjugation, whether intentional or not. By examining the dynamics between the feminine ‘natural’ and the masculine ‘human’ in Aphra Behn’s 1688 novel ‘Oroonoko’ and Couto’s ‘The Tuner of Silences’, published in 2009, I will argue how men and women are constructed differently in the literary sense as not only as natural beings, but also as inhabiting natural assumed roles in relation to one another and the ecology they are a part of. Specifically, these texts illuminate the striking similarity between the human cultural imposition on natural spaces, and the masculine imposition and domination of female identities. I will demonstrate how the European woman, present in both of these texts, negotiates and holds a unique place of rank within not only the colonial framework, but also within the gendered ecology of human civilization, and as such serves