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Name – Devluk Drashti MPaper – Cultural StudyTopic – Post Colonial studyRoll no – 9Year 2015 -2016Submitted – Department of English

M K Bhavnagar University

Postcolonial Studies

Counter-narrative in which the colonial cultures fight their way back into a world history written by Europeans.

Postcolonial Studies

Eurocentric discourse that assumed the normality and preeminence of everything "occidental," correlatively with its representations of the "oriental" as an exotic and inferior other.

Postcolonial Studies

construct superiority of the West

justify the dispossession of natives

represent the degradation of other human beings as natural

Concept of other

Other peopleBarbadians Non cultureUseless, lazy,

avoiding, to do work through pretence.

In need of civilization.

Heard and careful workers

Sensible and rational,

Careful bulildersiellectuale

Postcolonial StudiesWhite people

White peopleOther people

Who are you without us ?

Binary oppositions

The West: dynamic, rational, peaceful, liberal, logical, capable of holding real values - “male”The Orient: static, irrational, warlike, passion-ridden, “immoral” – “female

Postcolonial Studies

Edward Said (1935-2003) Orientalism (1978) Culture and Imperialism (1993) Politics of Dispossession (1994)

Examines the ways through which the ‘Orient’ was, and continues to be constructed through the lens of Europeans, in part defining Orientalism as a Western style for dominating, restructuring, and having authority over the Orient

Colonialist literatura: concerned with colonial expansion, written by and for colonizing Europeans about non-European lands dominated by themes

Some of the best known names in post colonial literature and theory.

Edward Said Salman Rushdie Jamaica kincaid Homi Bhabha