Postcolonial Feminism

At first, it was hard for me to understand what was going on in the novel. Once I started to get a clear picture of what was happening I was amazed and beyond impressed with her resolve. When she compares breathing life into the pen, like that of Isis breathing life into Osiris, after she had been raped and physically broken, was very powerful. She had been beaten and tortured and raped repeatedly and when one of the perpetrators says to her “this is the way we torture you, by depriving you of the most valuable thing that you possess.” To which she replied, “ You Fool! The most valuable thing I possess is not between my legs, You’re all so stupid. And the most stupid among you is the one who leads you.” The trial, once she actually made it there, was supposed to be a closed session, and there was a huge crowd of people that were cheering for her in a raucous manner, which was very uncommon for a trial and very uncommon for a trial of a woman. At one point she makes out her mother and feels a swell of pride knowing that she was in the crowd. Her father mistakenly feels shamed, because he knows they have raped her and feels that it better that she die than live with the shame, which is deplorable, knowing that she didnt choose for this to happen. I understand that is the custom, but I can’t imagine anyone believing that to be fair and balanced.
I would agree on certain points and disagree on others. Some aspects of Western
Postcolonial feminism are the same function as the forms and force of postcolonial politics.
The sympathies and interests of postcolonialism are thus forced on those at the margins of society, such as refugees, and migrants and minorities. So in this sense postcolonialism stands for a transformational politics, one that is dedicated to the removal of inequality, allowing for autonomous self­ government of those finding themselves being controlled. So,

with sovereignty achieved, postcolonial tries to achieve the ability to