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Postcolonial Theory

Postcolonial Theory

Postcolonial Literature

By the colonised

IDENTITY

  • After & Before
  • Resistance
  • Victimisation
  • The Western Media
  • National or Cultural Literature
    • Different conception
    • Different purpose
    • A construct
  • Language
  • Assimilation
  • A strategy of survival
    • Transnational
    • Translational

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+ INFO

By the colonisers

SUPERIORITY

  • Justification of colonialism
  • Distorted retelling
    • Founding National myths
  • Imagery
    • Beautiful landscape
    • Uncivilised indigenous people
    • Uneducated indigenous people
    • Ugliness (race inferiority) of the indigenous people
    • Generosity and benevolence of the coloniser

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What is it?

A critical approach focused on the territories that were or still are colonies of other countries. It especially studies the literature of these countries, both colonised and colonising, which deals with the colonization or the colonised people.

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