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Anti-conquest narrative is term coined by Mary Pratt, and used in postcolonial theory to refer to strategies of representation that serve to naturalize colonial power and authority. Pratt introduced the anti-conquest narrative as; "strategies of representation whereby European burgeois subjects seek to secure their innocence in the same moment as they assert European hegemony". The coloniser legitimises their dominance by casting the native as a savage capable of violence, as resistance to colonisation is proof of their savage nature.
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