Colonialism and Neo-Colonialism in J.M. Coetzee's Duskalands

Abstract

Confronting the ways of realities are constructed by historical bases. J.M. Coetzee's Dusklands examines European colonization in South African land and Americans' valorization of civilization as its politics for power. Europeans (Dutch) went to South Africa in the name of hunt elephants but their intention was to grab the precious things of the people. The same way Americasent troops in Vietnam to help the Vietnamese but ended up in the killing of innocent people. So it was surface motive; the real motive was to remove the communist ideology from there. It is the continuation of western colonialism over third world countries.