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Postcolonial Resistance and Representation, The fight against colonial…

- - - - Key Concept: Athough violence is never the answer it helps the colonized people regain their confidence.
- - - - Key Concept: Colonial rule disrupted an entire spiritual world, not just a ritual.
- - - - Key Concept: Showed a deeper understanding of how the West treats other cultures as objects that can be consumed.
- - - - Key Quote: "Why didn't you knock on the sides of the tank? Why didn't you bang the sides of the tank?"
- - - - Key Concept: Papers can carry the violence, but poetry is the one way that can express what really happened.
- - - - Key Concept: A temimony that speaks for the whole community and how indigious survival shows resistance.
- - - - Key Concepts: A black women living outside of her country may feel like she doesn't fully belong, but that is just want colonial powers have made her feel.
- - - - Key Concept: Orientalism is a way Western countries described the East in a way that supported their colonial power over other regions.
      - Edward Said likes to argue that the Western countries are underdeveloped and that they were in need of help. This wasn't true, but it was a way to make their control seem acceptable over others supporting imperial power.
      - Said and Narayan connection: Said explains the idea of Orientalism, while Narayan shows it through a story.
- - - - Key Concept: her torture is faced without and she refuses to be embarrassed and turns her body into a power movement.
  - - - Colonized people of the lower class had their bodies used to benefit others and when its not in need anymore they were forgotten.
        
        Key Concept: Bodies were used as a form or work and something that could be bought, controlled by the upper class.
- - - - Key Concept: Colonial capitalism has taken away traditional labor ruining identity.
- - - - Key Concept: Women often experienced colonial change differently and would feel stuck in deciding to follow traditional life or the "new" Western way.