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from the Latin word colonus, meaning farmer

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Colonialism

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2
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is a practice of domination, which involves the subjugation of one people to
another

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Colonialism

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3
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involves the transfer of population to a new territory, where the arrivals lived as permanent settlers while maintaining political allegiance to their country of
origin.

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Colonialism

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4
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anything that can be read, interpreted, analyzed

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TEXT

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5
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making sense of the world and our lives, we read spaces, places, our historical circumstances, and the plethora of images and messages unleashed by media, literature and art

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READING

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Text has no value or meaning apart from that of the readers

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MEANING

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Meaning is pre-determined, the reader is merely a site to receive information

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READERLY TEXT

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The reader , now in a position of control, takes an active role in the construction of meaning ( reader is turned into a writer

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WRITERLY TEXT

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9
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One intended interpretation

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CLOSED TEXT

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10
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Multiple and mediated interpretations

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OPEN TEXT

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a kind of text represents fixed reality and posits itself as a means of portraying that reality

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SIGN

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kind of text, a thing that exists in space and time. It conveys meaning not only about itself but about cultural processes and relationships. Meanings, therefore, are not constant, constituted thru human agency

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SYMBOL

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