It was published in England in 1991 and in America in 1992. ... Why that short story is categorized as post-colonial literature? ... Because of engrafting culture by the British, then it contaminates the native culture and then engenders hybrid identity in native people. ... Engrafting culture, which has been done by the colonizer, has contaminated the native culture that made the Native inclines to the western culture. ... "Who would have dreamt that her daughter was doing a PhD in Comparative Literature, ." ...

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Even after the de-colonization of Africa, the boundaries of the newly born states drawn with no regard to tribal lands and the European and American companies that own the majority of Africa's most resourceful land, are reminders that a form of imperialism still exists. ... The same idea of de-humanization of the Africans is present throughout Heart of Darkness as well, where the natives of the Congo are repeatedly called "savages." ... A good example of this is the Ogoni tribe in Nigeria whose lands were taken and exploited by American and Scandinavian oil companies. About two thirds o...

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