"Sensing Designs in History's Muddles": Global Feminism and the Postcolonial Novel

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First, the author analyzes Tony Morrison's novel "blue eyes" and shows the feminist race, gender, and identity of this novel's post-colonial era. The authors claim that Pecola wants to escape race discrimination and have blue eyes to eliminate not only my community but also all ugliness around the world. The next novel to be analyzed is Sura, the author is trying to demonstrate the remarkable characteristics of feminism after colonization, the recollection of female characters in the form of Sura or the importance of showing other female characters. The writer proves from the original that the Caucasian actually brought about all the darkness.

Postcolonial feminism is a type of feminism that reacts to feminism and focuses on women's experience in Western culture. Postcolonial feminism is trying to explain the long-term political, economic and cultural impacts of racism and colonialism on non-white and non-Western women in the post colonial world. Post-colonial feminism began in the 1980's, criticized by feminist theorists in developed countries, pointed out the generalization tendency of mainstream feminist thought and women living in non-Western Europeans are considered to be incorrectly expressed It was.

Because the post-colonial feminism itself is a criticism of Western feminism, criticism of colonial post-colonial feminism is often understood as promotion of Western feminism to protect its goals. One way that the western feminist movement criticized feminism in the post colonial era is to divide women into small groups to solve their own qualities and diversity and lose their purpose and power through feminist movement did. This criticism claims that the post-colonial feminism is divided and if the women can propose a unified front, the overall feminist movement will be stronger.