Postcolonialism

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Postcolonialism

• By Liza F. Badillo Cruz
• March 2, 2009.
• ENGG 630
• Contemporary Literary Theory
• Professor Dr. Evelyn Lugo
• Mondays 600-900pm

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Objectives

• Definitions or concepts of what is
  Postcolonialsm?
• Major Figures
• KeyTerms
• Examples
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?ve--JMrXJyZk
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vSWj9E4M8o20

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PostcolonialismPostcolonialism (post-colonial
theory or post-oriental) is an intellectual
discourse that holds together a set of theories
or philosophies, films, political science and
literature. From the XVI-XIX and XX
centuries.These theories are reactions to the
cultural legacy of colonialism.
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As a literary theory (or critical
approach), it deals with literature produced in
countries that once were colonies of theories
found among the texts and sub-texts of other
countries, especially of the European colonial
powers Britain, France, and Spain in some
contexts, it includes countries still in colonial
arrangements.
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It also deals with literature written in
colonial countries and by their citizens that has
colonized people as its subject matter.
Postcolonial theory was part of the 1970,with the
orientalism of Edward Said. Describes the
discourse about the East constructed by the West.
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Colonized people, especially of the British
Empire, attended British universities their
access to education, still unavailable in the
colonies, created a new criticism - mostly
literary, and especially in novels. Following the
breakup of the Soviet Union during the late 20th
century, its former republics became the subject
of this study as well.
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Temporal Aception- postcolonialsm appears in 1947
with the independence of India, at the end of the
Second World War. It appears in Asia and Africa
in all Europe from XVI century. (P. Williams, L.
Chrismas)(F. Jameson).
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Discursive Aception- literature made in the
colonial period (B. Ashcroft), and practice that
braked down the arguments use from Europe to
dominate. (E. Shoat, M.L.Pratt)
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Epistemic Aception- postcolonial theories, 1980
England and U.S.A by the Palestine Edward Said.
In his book Orientalism(1978). The other
human science and imperialism.
http//www.youtube.com/watch?v3pmkfvzmLdU
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Major FiguresEdward Said Wole
SoyinkaHomi Bhabha Salman
RushdieFrantz Fanon Jamaica Kincaid
Gayatri Spivak Buchi EmechetaChinua
Achebe
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Key TermsAlterity-lack of
identification with some part of ones community,
differentness, otherness.Diaspora-refer to any
people or ethnic population forced or induce to
leave their homelands, being dispersed throughout
other parts of the world.
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Imperialsm-extending the control or authorithy
over foreing entities as a means of acquisition
and maintenance of empires, either through direct
territorial control.
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Eurocentrism-the practice, conscious or
otherwise, of placing emphasis on European
concerns, culture and values at the expense of
those of other cultures. Hybridity-referring
to the integration of cultural signs and
practices from the colonizing and colonized
cultures.
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ExamplesBooksAchebe, Things Fall
ApartSoyinka, The Lion and the
Jewelhttp//www.youtube.com/watch?vQy6wo2wpT2k
http//www.youtube.com/watch?vNM37tB_F96ohttp//
www.youtube.com/watch?vygNuRpwZqRUhttp//www.you
tube.com/watch?vXbtA0TIyoI8
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FilmsMississipi Masala(Mira Nair,1992)Sugar
Cane Alley,(1984)Xala, (1974)Whale Rider,
(2004)
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ReferencesSiegel, Kristi Dr. Introduction to
Modern Literary Theory.
Recuperado el 1 de Febrero de 2009.
http//www. Kristisiegel.com/theory.htmPostcol
onialism-Wikipedia, la Enciclopedia Libre.
Recuperado el 17 de Febrero de 2009.
http//es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postcolonia
lismYifen, Beus Dr. Postcolonial Literature and
Film. Recuperado el 17 de Febrero
de 2009. http//w2.byuh.edu/academi
cs/ICS/ICS20401A.htm