Post-Colonial
Reading is an approach (that includes the reading and rereading of texts)
toward texts of both metropolitan and colonial cultures to draw deliberate
attention to the deep and inexorable effects of colonization on literary
production; anthropological accounts; historical records; administrative and
scientific writing. It is a form of deconstructive reading most usually applied
to works emanating from the colonizers (but may be applied to works by the colonized)
which demonstrates the extent to which the text contradicts its underlying
assumptions (civilization, justice, aesthetics, sensibility, race) and reveals
its (often unwitting) colonialist ideologies and processes.