I returned home from quarantine last week and spent a brief time with my family. And then I search some information about the gentleman’s design, but there is not much information about the 11th century setting of the Macbeth. Kathleen suggested that I look for Shakespearean costumes, which is the Tudor period, for reference. The man’s mannequin I bought hasn’t arrived yet, so while I’m waiting, I continue to make Tudor Bodice and Elisabethan Stay.
For creative research, I wanted to write about postcolonial criticism, because it tends to focus on global issues, on similarities and differences between different nations.
Although the colonists had retreated and the lands they had seized had been returned to their original owners, the process of decolonization was largely limited to the departure of troops and officials. What they left behind was a deep-rooted cultural colonization: the political and educational systems, the culture that the colonists instilled in their former colonies, and the culture, morality and even values that devalued their former colonies.
Then there is the so-called neocolonialism, which, while exploiting the cheap labor of developing countries, often destroys their struggling businesses, cultural traditions and ecologies.
As a modern person who has not experienced these histories, we can feel the sharp conflicts between the colonists and the colonized nations only when we see the definitions and interpretations of these terms.
Later, I watched an interview in which a man, unavoidably, set aside these national themes to interpret history through the lens of private memory. When a person looks back on his past, what may remain in his memory are the happy memories of his childhood, which is the place he loved and lived, rather than the Angle of national interests. If it has to be tied to politics, it can be cruel to an individual. These personal memories contain emotional elements that cannot be recorded by historical facts, but can only be reflected through films or literary works. This idea is also an interesting perspective to start. I would like to research further information and watch more movies that have the similar perspective.
