1 postcolonial period & postcolonialism
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Postcolonial Period & Postcolonialism
What is Colonialism?
Political Domination of Another People No decisions that aren’t agreed upon by
British The Establishment of a Government
Rulers actually selected by Britain Large-Scale Religious Conversion
Christianity acceptable, civilized
Forced Economic Dependence Raw materials sold to Britain (cheap) Final product sold to colonies (exp.)
The Building of an Infrastructure (roads, railroads, hospitals, schools, etc.)
What is Colonialism?
Justifications for Colonialism
Economic Colonialism provided a huge natural
resource base for small European powers
Colonies provided ready markets for finished products
Religious: The need to spread Christianity
Cultural: “The White Man’s Burden” British civilized, correct religion felt the need to save other souls
Justifications for Colonialism
The British Empire in 1914
Colonial Africa
Post Colonial Africa
Postcolonialism (1940’s - ...)• Intellectual discourse to explain the cultural legacies of colonialism and imperialism
•Literature in former colonies + Post-Soviet Countries
•Deals with :• Social&political power to sustain colonies• Social, political&cultural representations of the
colonizer and the colonized• Human relations in exploited countries
To Achieve Postcolonial Perspective First step for the “colonized” is to
reclaim their own past i.e.. History did not begin with the
Europeans Second step is to erode colonialist
ideology that devalued their past
Key Terms•ambivalence: the ambiguous way in which colonizer and colonized regard one another.
•alterity: "the state of being other or different
•diaspora: the voluntary or enforced migration of peoples from their native homelands.
•ethnicity: a fusion of traits that belong to a group
•hegemony: the power of the ruling class to convince other classes that their interests are the interests of all
Key Terms•hybridity: new transcultural forms that arise from cross-cultural exchange
•mimicry: the means by which the colonized adapt the culture
•orientalism: the process by which "the Orient" was constructed as an exotic other by European studies and culture.
•other: the social and/or psychological ways in which one group excludes or marginalizes another group
Key Terms•subaltern: the lower or colonized classes who have little access to their own means of expression
• Eurocentrism / Western Logocentrism ???
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