They may militarily dominate the culture, but they do not speak the language of the culture's beliefs. Adele assumes that Aziz desires her because she desires him and because 'Orientals' are highly sexualized, even though Aziz actually pities her before the events of the cave, noting "she has practically no breasts" (Forster 130).
The narrow view of Shakespeare's famous play of colonization is explicitly questioned in Elizabeth Nunez's novel Prospero's Daughter. There, the mad scientist
Dr. Gardner takes over the native orphan boy Carlos' land and falsely accuses him, as the boy comes of age and can lay claim to his property, of raping Gardner's daughter Virginia. Gardener uses this as justification for his taking possession of everything Carlos owns. He even uproots the life-giving native fruit trees crops because they take away from the beauty of his transplanted soil and grass. Eventually, the Carlos and Virginia fall in love, overcoming the boundaries of nationality and the 'us vs. them' discourse to establish a loving relationship.
As anti-colonialist as Nunez may be, her celebration of the romance between Carlos and Virginia shows that post-colonial discourse need not be racaialized or fueled by hatred. True, it may seem, upon the surface, that there is a simple and easy answer to the misunderstandings between colonized and colonizers -- eliminate the forces of the colonized. Of course, India strove to do this in history. But the novel Train to Pakistan shows that there are still tremendous divides between Hindus and Muslims, and also between the different classes of the land. One villager of Mano Majra, a town that lies on the border of the partition of Pakistan and India says that: "We were...
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