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Title: Postcolonial Studies and Theories


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Postcolonial Studies and Theories
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Postcolonial Studies
  • Quayson and Goldberg Introduction
  • Saids Orientalism (1978) the holy trinity of
    PSSaid, Bhabha, Spivak
  • 3 Clusters of Attitudes/Ideas
  • 1. the desire to speak to the Western paradigm
    of knowledge in the voice of otherness
  • questioning binary oppositions
  • postcolonial criticism as an ethical
    enterprise
  • Paradox anti-foundationalist yet aligned to
    the assertion of an ethical standpoint (xii)

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  • 2. simultaneous claim and disavowal as an object
    of academic studyparadox
  • similar to Feminist StudiesFeminist Studies
    names woman only to show how this naming is a
    constraint imposed by the voice of patriarchal
    power. Ideally, woman should be completely
    freed from that constraint, but once freed, would
    it not entail the demise of that academic
    field?Adorno in Minima Moraliathe only
    philosophy which can be responsibly practised in
    the face of despair is the attempt to contemplate
    all things as they would present themselves from
    the standpoint of redemption.
  • informing ethical impulse of PS (xiii)

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  • 3. appropriatively interdisciplinaryit is not
    just that is interdisciplinary, but that anything
    that serves its purposes, whether originally
    thought of as postcolonial or not, is pressed
    into the service of a postcolonial analysis.
  • the use of Foucault, Lacan, Derrida, Deleuze and
    Guattari
  • postcolonial renditionsSoyinka/Nietzsche,
    Lacan/Fanon, Benitez-Rojo/Deleuze and Guattari
    Lamming/Shakespeare, Coetzee/ Defoe, Rhys/Brontë,
    Achebe/Conrad, Borges/Kafka (xvi)
  • the essay form and the tyranny of quotationality
    and citation in PSquoting out of context (xvii)
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