Provide a postcolonial reading of Pride and Prejudice.

Post-colonial literature is a term that describes
literature written after a country’s colonial period.  It typically describes how a new
country is formed, and recovers from the legacy of colonialism.  Pride and
Prejudice, on the other hand, is novel of Victorian England.  While England
itself was never a colony, it did have many colonies in Africa, Asia and the Americas. 
Many of the ideas of Victorian England were imposed upon some of these colonies of Great
Britain.  For example, ideas relating to property and marriage were brought
over. 

Pride and Prejudice describes
issues of social class, especially related to property and marriage.  Social class and
marrying to improve one’s fortune were just as common among the expatriates who traveled
from Victorian England to its various colonies.  They brought their prejudices, ideas
and traditions with them.