Colonialism in Judith Thompson's ''Pink'' Raghda Maher El-Amir College

How there are tyrants while there are no slaves? (Jose Rizal). Colonization is an action done for the aim of establishing control over others or a specific domain because of the colonizer’s assumption of their own superiority and others inferiority such as the colonization of the European world to South Africa in 1625 (Oliver and H. Oliver 2). In addition, many populations resisted colonization by using different methods and fields like using literature in criticizing postcolonialism. According to Louis Tyson, postcolonial criticism aims to understand the colonizing process from a psychological, social, political, and cultural perspective of anticolonialist and colonialist ideologies (417). From the texts that tackled this concept in the short monologue “Pink” which is written by the playwright Judith Thompson in 1986. “Pink” is about a 10 years old white girl who was talking to her black nanny after she was killed during a protest march against the apartheid system that was applied in South Africa; moreover, the young girl was blaming her nanny’s spirit for her death and was trying to convince her that the apartheid system is for the sake of her benefit, but after that, she began to blame herself because she thought that her...