Name: Gohil Umaba .B Roll No : 16 Email id: umabagohil123@gmail.com Paper No: 11 Postcolonial Litreature Topic : Key Terms of Common Wealth Litreature

Submitted To : M.K Bhavnagar University, Department Of English

What is commonwealth ? Common wealth means british nation.for ex. Political community.

The commonwealth is an intergovermental organization 54 which were formally part of british emperor.

The term has been generally used to refer to litreatures of colonies, former colonies and dependence of britan excluding the litreature of england.

The rise of the study national litreature's writing in english and begins with the study of american litreature.

But those litreature that came to be collectively.

Key terms of postcolonial literature

Anti imperialism Diaspora Discource Subaltern Hegemony Subjectivity.

Discource The construction of subjectivity within certain historical , social and cultural has been elaborated in a society Michel Foucault by , and most operate within the lows of language , so discourse produces a subject equally dependent upon the rules of the system of knowledge that produces it

Colonial discourse instructs a particular kind of subject with which the subject itself can and often does can our because of it powerlessness.

Disapora The term is derived from Greek word and it means “scattering”. There are many writers who wrote diaspora literature like Salman Rushdie, Sujata Bhatt,JumpaLaheri, etc.

These all writers are in home sickness and so they write about their homeland and what they are feeling there. So in this type of literature writer wrote about their country and remembering those days and write poems or any other form of literature about it.

Diaspora literature concern with questions of maintaining or altering identity, language,and culture, while in another culture or country. Forexample in the movie ‘Swadesh’ we can see that Shahrukh Khan also feel like that and remember his own country.

“French; social theorist Michel Foucault developed a notion of discourse in his early work, especially the Archaeology of knowledge (1972).

Race ‘Race’ is term of the human life with connect, that type of the classification of human being into physically, biologically, and genetically distinct groups.

‘Race’ is term of the human life with connect, that type of the classification of human being into physically, biologically, and genetically distinct groups.

Race is particularly relevant the rise of colonialism , because the division of human society in his way is inextricable from the need of colonialist powers to establish a dominance our subject peoples and lance justify the imperial enterprise.

Fanon’s Black Skin, White Masks on Race Consciousness. Readers of Fanon’s Black Skin, White Masks often disagree about whether or not Fanon is arguing for or against the perpetuation of racial categories.

Anti-imperialism Anti-imperialism is a term that may be applied to movement opposed to any form of colonialism or imperialism.

Anti- imperialism includes opposition to wars of conquest, particularly of non-contiguous territory or people with a different language or culture; it also includes people opposing the expansion of a country beyond earlier borders.

Examples of anti imperialists include Republican senators of the roman republic, and members of anti-imperialist League that opposed the absorption of the Philippines after the Spanish- American war of 1898.

Subaltern The motion of the subaltern becomes an issue in post- colonial theory when Gayatri Chakravarti Spivak critiqued the assumption of the

subaltern studies group in the easy “Can the Subaltern Speak?”. This question , she claims , is one thatthe group must ask.

· The people or the subaltern is a group defined by its difference from the elite.

· If in the context of colonial production , the subaltern female is even more deeply in shadow.

· Spivak examines the position of Indian women through an analysis of a particular case and concludes with the declaration that the subaltern cannot speak.

· Spivak target is the concept of an unproblematic ally constituted subaltern identity , Rather than the subaltern subject ability to give voice to political concerns.

Hegemony Hegemony , initially a term referring to the dominance of one state within a confederation , is now generally understood to mean domination by consent.

The term is useful for describing the success of imperial power over a colonized people who many for outnumber and occupying military force , but whose desire for self determination has been suppressed by a hegemonic notion terms of social order, stability and advancement , all of which are definite by the colonizing power

“Hegemony” is important because the capacity to influence the thought of the colonized is by for the most sustained in colonized regions.

Subjectivity The question of the subject and subjectivity directly affects colonized people’s perception of their identities and their capacities to resist the conditions of their domination , their subjection.

The concept of subjectivity problematizes the simple relationship between the individual and language, replacing human nature with the concept of the production of the human subject through ideology discourse or language.

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