Lucy: Mother-Daughter Relationship

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Although Lucy’s mother seems to allow some kind of separation by allowing Lucy to travel to America, she has no intention of making it permanent and completely letting go of Lucy. She consistently writes her letters. Similarly the legacy of colonialism is almost impossible to escape from...
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Similarly the legacy of colonialism is almost impossible to escape from. It has woven itself with the ways of the country and the people of the country and it takes great effort to escape. Lucy struggles to reconcile what she has internalized from her mother with what she discovers about herself: I was then at the height of my two-facedness: that is outside I seemed one way, inside I was another; outside false, inside true (Lucy, Page 18) This is an example of the double consciousness of the colonized person spoken about by philosopher Franz Fanon as one of the ramifications of colonization on the colonized...
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