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This 3 page paper discusses the issue of gender in postcolonial English animal tales. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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animal tales. Discussion A couple of definitions are probably in order before we can make sense of this topic. First, what is post-colonialism? And what purpose does
it serve to use animals in these stories? Strictly speaking, "post-colonial" means "after colonial"; that is, after a colony has gained independence from the nation to which it belonged.
However, according to one source, that definition is both simplistic and under debate, and argues that the term can apply to the period before independence as well (Bahri, 1996).
This is because the colonys formation "through various mechanisms of control and the various stages in the development of anti-colonial nationalism interest many scholars in the field" (Bahri, 1996).
While its easy to see why historians, political scientists and others might want to consider the developments within the colony that led to independence, it seems unnecessary to put that
construction on the term in connection with literature. In addition, colonialism is described as "one variety of fascism" which is "based on economic privilege, despite suggestion of more
noble goals of religious conversion or civilization" (Wolfson, 1998). The system works by inculcating feelings of inferiority and worthlessness in the colonized population; it uses racism and terrorism to
keep a minority in control (Wolfson, 1998). With this background, lets see what we can find about gender stereotypes in such tales. Animal tales, as noted above, feature animals
as main characters; these characters "are humanized animals who demonstrate some simple lesson about human nature" (Wolf and Levy). These tales usually do not have the animals doing magical
acts, but instead involve "repetition, usually by threes" (Wolf and Levy). Examples of these traditional animal tales include "The Three Bears" and "The Little Red Hen" (Wolf and Levy).
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