Part 1: Intro to Postcolonial Theory
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Transcript
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
+ INFO
+ 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.