The Effects of Caribbean Colonization on the Family...

The effects of colonization on the family of Caribbean people, as described by various twentieth century Caribbean woman writers, are as complicated as they are vast. These authors show that families continue to struggle with separation, poverty, and cultural identity issues that create extra ordinary difficulties for the families who live on these post-colonial islands. It can be argued that all families have struggles, both internal and external, and while this is undoubtedly true, the struggles that the families described in these novels endure have a direct connection to their colonized past and the influences of the colonizer, still felt by the countries colonized and their people. The abolition of slavery†¦show more content†¦But then, just as quickly, my heart shriveled up and the words â€Å"I shall never see this again† spilled out inside me† (144-145). The underlying difference between the family separation seen here and the separations of family in non-colonized countries is the sense of permanence surrounding them. It is one thing to be able to hop into ones car and drive, even over great distance, to visit relatives living in ones own land, it is entirely different, and Annie is certainly smart enough, even at the age of sixteen, to understand this difference, to financially afford and/or receive the required documentation that will allow her and her parents to see each other easily, again. Emotional separation between family members due to conflicts of family reactions to cultural identity can be found in â€Å"Beka Lamb†, by Zee Edgell. 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