CHRISTOPHER HAМPTON AND EDUARDO GALEANO: EUROPEAN (NEO)COLONIALISM IN LATIN AMERICA AND ITS CONSEQUENCES
CHRISTOPHER HAМPTON AND EDUARDO GALEANO: EUROPEAN (NEO)COLONIALISM IN LATIN AMERICA AND ITS CONSEQUENCES

Summary/Abstract: The intention of this paper is to examine the works of the British playwright Christopher Hampton (his plays White Chameleon and Savages, and his film Imagining Argentina) and the Uruguayan author Eduardo Galeano (Open Veins of Latin America, Ser Como Ellos, Memories of Fire, Mirrors) in order to point out the importance of the concerns that bind them. Both authors critique past and present colonial practices, one focusing on the inhumanity of the European colonizers and the other on the suffering of the colonized peoples of South America. Their analyses expose gruesome realities behind the alleged noble civilizing intentions of the European colonial powers, and help their readers understand how and why new forms of control and domination arise today, out of disguised but unchanged old colonial practices and ambitions.

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