Then the indication of the word ‘Postcolonialism’ along with the origin and development of this Postcolonial studies have to be examined. Various representative authors like Rushdie, Achebe, Ondaatje, Fanon, Derek Walcott and J. M. Coetzee in addition to some female writers like Jamaica Kincaid, Isabelle Illende, and Eavan Boland are to be presented critically. Moreover, some representative works of most renowned authors under the literary movement Postcolonialism are presented
INTRODUCTION 1. Background 1.1. Colonialism of Africa According to Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin in Post-Colonial Studies- The key Concepts colonialism is ‘‘the specific form of cultural exploitation that developed with the expansion of Europe over the last 400 years’’ (45). It is the implanting of settlements on a distant territory (122). Ania Loomba defines colonialism as the conquest and control of other people’s land and goods (8). The African continent has experienced direct
Literally, postcolonialism refers to the period following the decline of colonialism, e.g., the end or lessening of domination by European empires. Although the term postcolonialism generally refers to the period after colonialism, the distinction is not always made. Postcolonialism does not simply seek to tell the story of what happened after decolonization, but seeks a critical perspective on its ongoing, problematic legacy: as Young writes, “Postcolonial critique focuses on forces of oppression
etc. In this sense, postcolonial research is self-disciplined that is still changing and growing as it provides reasons for several questionable and controversial topics and problems. However, taken together, both the concepts of feminism and postcolonialism insist on the existence of a direct dialectical encounter of change and resistance that contains a
women. Feminism opened the possibility of being able to speak. “Woman must write herself; must write about women and bring women to writing from which they have been driven away as violently as from their bodies (Cixous 2039).” In the case of postcolonialism, the studies initiated by the Western people are now viewed as their tool to dominate the East (1992). The project of the West is to use the East as its source of free raw materials for their
in their lives, therefore the colonized owe them for the help that they provided. As a result, the colonized people tend look upon their colonizer as more intellectually capable which leads them to take the words of their colonizers as dogma. “Orientalism as a Western style for dominating, restructuring and having authority over the Orient (Said
Dhanya Raghavan 17203416 Topics in Continental Philosophy Phil 41320 Dr. Danielle Petherbridge Frantz Fanon and the Construction of Postcolonial Identities Colonialism essentially began as an enterprise where one nation took complete political control of another nation seeking to extend its authority over the other country by aiming to develop them and exploit them for the benefits of the colonizing country. Colonialism explores the relationship between an indigenous population and the colonial
Post-colonialism (or often postcolonialism) deals with the effects of colonization on cultures and societies. As originally used by historians after the SecondWorldWar in terms such as the post-colonial state, ‘post-colonial’ had a clearly chronological meaning, designating the post-independence period. However, from the late 1970s the term has been used by literary critics to discuss the various cultural effects of colonization. Although the study of the controlling power of representation in colonized
considering the definition of post-colonialism, what is international relations and what is the relationship between post-colonialism and international relations is like. I will also consider the historical development theories such as subaltern and orientalism which have played a key role in the development of
A postcolonial study usually discusses about the binary opposition between the colonized and colonizer, oppressed and oppressor, subjugated and subjugator. Using a postcolonial criticism, one can easily recognizes the ideas of polarization in literary texts. Ernest Hemingway’s Indian Camp and John Henrik Clarke’s The Boy Who Painted Christ Black are two example of literary works that show the polarization. The stories portray a vivid view on colonialism. Both of the stories tell about the oppression