British Literature
Essay title: British Literature
The British Empire was once taking over many different territories and colonizing around the world. In the twentieth century what was accepted as British literature because more diverse. Britain diversified its self not only around the world but people from all over came to Britain too. Many writings in this period show this in different ways. Virginia Woolf’s “A Room of One’s Own”, Salmon Rushdie’s “English Is an Indian Literary Language”, Ngugi WA Thiong’O’s “Decolonising the Mind”, Wole Soyinka’s “Telephone Conversation” are some works that show the diversity of British literature.
Well known for colonialism, a policy by which a nation maintains or extends its control over foreign dependencies, Britain was growing. More and more in the twentieth century and after is where colonialism became neocolonialism, a policy where a major power uses economic and political means to perpetuate or extend its influence over underdeveloped nations or areas. This is when Diversity started to grow all over the world. People were moving to different parts of the world to explore, to gain power and to better their own lives. This is the time when education started growing and more and more people were getting educated. Women were beginning to be more out spoken and technology was advancing.
With all the change going on in the twentieth century women were also big parts of this movement of diversity. The dramatic setting