Post Colonialism

Example:

Viajero - F. Sionil Jose (Filipino Novel)

Summary:

Viajero is a novel of history of the Philippine Islands and their people long before the Spaniards came. It is also the story of the Filipino diaspora as seen by an orphan who is brought by an American captain to the United States in 1945. Through the eyes of Salvador dela Raza unfolds the epic voyage of the Filipino, from the earliest contact with China through Magellan's tragedy in Mactan, onto the heroic voyage of the galleons across the Pacific. The VIAJERO story concludes with the movement of Filipino workers to the Middle East, and the travail of Filipino women in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Tokyo

Interpretation:

The Post-Colonialism used to examines the cultures, literatures, politics, and histories of former colonies.

Viajero can be viewed under Post-Colonialism because the novel is all about Philippine history including the colonization of America to our country. This novel also shows that our country experienced "colonial oppression". Viajero an allegorical reinforcement of "ideological interdependence" and reaffirmation of "American colonial tutelage", which was contrary to the goal of contemporary Filipino nationalists. Such goal was to define and diffentiate the Filipino view of nationalism from the American form of nationalism.