After a class I took last semester with Dr. Slater about the literary theory, I become interested in knowing if there is any connection between feminism issue and colonialism matter. In term of othering, if we look form a feminine perspective I noticed that sometimes they call female as the man’s other. Lois Tyson in her book Critical Theory Today, states, “The word woman, therefore, has the same implications as the word other. A woman is not a person in her own right. She is man’s Other: she is less than a man; she is a kind of alien in a man’s world; she is not a fully developed human being the way a man is” (96). male are the center of the world. women’s position was, or still in some places, seen as they are colonized.
Similarly, by looking into the othering and orientalism of the colonized people, we noticed how the European missionary treated the colonized people as the others. Tyson states,“So the colonizer saw themselves at the center of the world; the colonized were the margins” (419). Europeans are able to dominate African people by changing the African conception of religion and justice; by Othering native African religious beliefs, Europeans could gain control over African leaders and, thus, their land and natural resource.
Both groups appear as powerless and subordinate. Feminist and postcolonial seek to gain their right, freedom and leave the world of dominant behind them.
Thus, I find it interesting to use text that related to these different issue and combine it by using Voyant to do a kind of close reading and analyzing the result to see of there is a real similarity. However, I added different text and that was the result. to be quite honest, Voyant did work the way I expected. I am not sure what is the reason behind that! I might did not choose the correct sources to do so, or voyant has some errors issues.
THIS AFTERNOON WISDOM,
Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when it’s the only one we have” Alain.