The colonized also act as dramatists imposing familiar narrative shapes

Evidence

Because my mother was brought up in this Jamaican plantation context, she thought she was practically “English.” She thought England was the mother country; she identified with the colonial power. She had aspirations for us, her family, which materially we couldn’t keep up with, but which she aspired to, culturally. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 746 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The colonized also wield knowledge-as-power discourses against those they colonize; Orientalist categories are reproduced by the colonized themselves; Colonized subjects identify with the colonizer’s culture while lacking its material means — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 746 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• The colonized also wield knowledge-as-power discourses against those they colonize #exemplifies (1.00)
• Orientalist categories are reproduced by the colonized themselves #exemplifies (1.00)
• Colonized subjects identify with the colonizer’s culture while lacking its material means #exemplifies (1.00) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 746
• Colonisation makes Western categories inseparable from instruments of dominion #exemplifies (1.00)
• Both colonizer and colonized behave neurotically toward each other. #exemplifies (1.00)