European Imperialism

In lecture today, Mufti discussed how imperialism has produced what we now today call world literature. Imperialism has placed Europe and western ideology at the center of literature. European desire for assimilation by their colonized people resulted in European culture dominating the native culture. This is the reason that I believe that, as Mufti mentioned, everywhere there is domination, which therefore results in resistance. The resistance results from a lack of respect for those being colonized and a suppression of their culture. In world literature we are able to better understand the resistance that resulted from European domination. We are also able to see how the western world has left imprints of itself throughout the modern world. In the history of India we are able to see how even though many people assimilated and became Anglophone, eventually they still resisted the European domination and eventually became an independent state.