"POSTCOLONIAL ENCOUNTERS AND THE CARIBBEAN DIASPORA: "ENCANCARANUBLADO" BY ANA LYDIA VEGA." Fernando Valerio-Holguín

POSTCOLONIAL ENCOUNTERS AND THE CARIBBEAN DIASPORA: "ENCANCARANUBLADO" BY ANA LYDIA VEGA Fernando Valerio-Holguín Colorado State University Introduction: Colonial Encounter/Postcolonial Encounter Peter Hulme has suggested that the period of colonial... More

POSTCOLONIAL ENCOUNTERS AND THE CARIBBEAN DIASPORA: "ENCANCARANUBLADO" BY ANA LYDIA VEGA Fernando Valerio-Holguín Colorado State University Introduction: Colonial Encounter/Postcolonial Encounter Peter Hulme has suggested that the period of colonial encounters between Europeans and Native Americans constituted a privileged moment for European discourse (xiii). These representations of encounters with the Other were important not only because they established an ideological justification for the genocide and sacking of the Americas, but because they reaffirmed European identity through the use of a barbarous/civilization polarity. As examples of these encounters Peter Hulme cites the encounters between Columbus and the "cannibals", and the long series of representations that were derived from this meeting. Among these representations of the colonial encounter he includes the stories of Prospero and Caliban, John Smith and Pocahontas, Robinson Crusoe and Friday, and Inkle and Yariko. Less