post colonial
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- Created on: 23-04-20 17:59
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- Post-colonial
- Considers how European and North American literature ignored and oppressed non-European people and cultures as lesser and insignificant
- Writers focus on the effects of colonialism
- To readers, texts like these either implicitly or explicitly racist
- Post colonial critics highlight themes of dominance, power and freedom and empowerment
- They care for how different people are represented, what attitudes are portrayed and whose voices are heard
- Focus is placed on the complex relationships between the colonisers and the colonised, and how language is used to represent these
- Post-colonial literature comes from Britain's colonisation history in India, Africa and the Caribbean
- Commonly written in English and themes of emigration, national identity and struggles for independence
- What is post- colonial theory?
- It deals with literature produced in countries that were once (or currently are) part of other countries.
- Additionally, it can be written by citizens of colonising countries
- They examine how literature written by colonial powers is used to justify colonialism as acceptable- they portray the colonised people as inferior
- However, it has been critiqued as there isn't really a set definition of post-colonial theory
- They examine how literature written by colonial powers is used to justify colonialism as acceptable- they portray the colonised people as inferior
- What do post- colonial critics do?
- They reject claims that colonisers can empathise with different cultures and ethnicities
- assess the representation of other cultures
- Celebrate the hybridisation of cultures
- Believe in change from the ideas of marginalisation
- Language is the forefront of colonialism- the colonisers rejected native languages
- European names for countries place power over them, because then the dominant language becomes the way in which it is known.
- Histories of both the colonised and the coloniser are from the perspectives of men, women are rarely included at all.
- Colonisation was differentiated by gender- the colonisers were male.
- Both gender and race determined the hierarchies
- The hierarchies are as follows: European men, European women, African men and African women
- Considers how European and North American literature ignored and oppressed non-European people and cultures as lesser and insignificant
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