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...
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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.
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