Demythologizing the romance of conquest

Jeanne Armstrong

"Armstrong examines the repercussions of colonization on the lives of women characters in novels about four different "post-colonial" cultural contexts - Native American, Jamaican, Irish, and Mexican American.". "Armstrong begins by examining the particular historical contexts of each novel and the intersecting themes relating to the impact of colonialism such as liminality, mingling of cultures, loss and mourning, and reemergence of repressed history through oral tradition. She then looks at Louise Erdrich's novel Tracks in which the three primary characters respond to their experiences of personal and collective loss in the context of Anishinaabe culture; Erna Brodber's Myal is explored for the impact of the manichean colonial ideology on a Jamaican woman who is literary half-black and half-white. Next is an analysis of Julia O'Faolain's No Country for Young Men a novel about two...

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