Colonialism involves the dominance of a strong nation over a weaker one to acquire resources and manpower from colonies. Colonialists justified their actions by claiming colonized people were uncivilized and needed education, their cultures were inferior, and they could not govern themselves. The effects of colonialism included the erosion of colonized cultures, rejection of Western influences as a reaction, and emergence of new social classes and contradictions. Post-colonialism critiques Western representations of colonized peoples and studies power relationships between former colonizers and colonized groups. Post-colonial literature examines cultural relativism, absurdity of colonial discourses, ambivalence towards authority due to victory over settlers, and colonial alienation in one's

1. Post-colonialism