Loomba, Ania (1998) Colonialism/Postcolonialism. Routledge: London and New York.

SITUATING COLONIAL AND POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES DEFINING THE TERMS: COLONIALISM, IMPERIALISM, NEO-COLONIALISM, POSTCOLONIALISM 5Colonialism and imperialism are often used interchangeably. The word colonialism, according to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), comes from the Roman colonia which meant farm or settlement, and referred to Romans who settled in other lands but still retained their citizenship. Accordingly, the OED describes it as, 10
A settlement in a new countrya body of people who settle in a new locality, forming a community subject to or connected with their parent state; the community so formed, consisting of the original settlers and their descendants and successors, as long as the connection with the parent state is kept up.

This definition, quite remarkably, avoids any reference to people other than the colonisers, 15people who might have been living in those places where colonies were established. Hence it evacuates the word colonialism of any implications of an encounter between peoples, or of conquest and domination. There is no hint that the new locality may not be so new and that the process of forming a new community might be somewhat unfair. Colonialism was not an identical process in different parts of the world but everywhere it locked the original 20inhabitants and the newcomers into the most complex and traumatic relationships in human history. In The Tempest, for example, Shakespeares single major addition to the story that he found in certain pamphlets about a shipwreck in the Bermudas was to make the island inhabited before Prosperos arrival (Hulme 1986b: 69). That single addition turned the adventure story into an allegory of the colonial encounter. The process of forming a community in the new 25land necessarily meant unforming or re-forming the communities that existed there already, and involved a wide range of practices including trade, plunder, negotiation, warfare, genocide, enslavement and rebellions. Such practices produced and were produced through a variety of writing public and private records, letters, trade documents, governments papers, fiction and scientific literature. These practices and writings are an important part of all that contemporary 30studies of colonialism and postcolonialism try to make sense of. (total de palabras 335)

1. Qu dice el texto sobre los trminos colonialismo e imperialismo?

2. De dnde proviene, segn el OED, el trmino colonialismo?

3. Qu cuatro aspectos no menciona esa definicin? 35 4. Qu aspecto comparten todos los procesos de colonialismo?
5. Por qu se menciona en este texto a La Tempestad, obra de Shakespeare? 6. A qu se refiere la frase such practices en el rengln 22?