Post-Colonialism (1): Colonialism Defined

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Post-Colonialism (1) Colonialism Defined

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Starting Questions

• What are the examples of colonialism? Is KMTs
  regime an example?
• What are the examples of colonial thinking (e.g.
  the racial/cultural prejudices and stereotypes)
  in English Literature?
• Is de-colonization possible?
• How do we or the colonized resist colonialism in
  life and through literature?

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Post-Colonialism Major Issues

• Colonialisms
• Definition
• cultural Imperialism Theories Examples
• 2. Post-Colonialism Resistance and Immigration
• A. Resisting colonialism/Constructing
  postcolonial identities through
• Language, History and Identity Construction
• Strategies Separatism (Nativism), Re-Creation,
  Cultural Syncreticism, Mimicry, Active
  participation, Assimilation.
• examples
• B. Diaspora and Globalization

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Colonialism Definition and Kinds

• Definition colonialism --military, economic,
  cultural oppression domination of one country
  over another.
• Kinds
• 1. Invasion-colonization
• 2. Settlement-colonization
• 3. Internal Colonialism
• 4. Neo-Colonialism

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Colonialism Flows of Natural Resources and People

• Triangular
• Trade
• 2. Middle Passage

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Colonialism flows of migration

• Flows of Migrants

1st World Colonial powers Adventurers, Army, travelers, missionaries, immigrants Third World Slaves, Contract laborers, Students, businessmen, etc.
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cultural imperialism (1) Theories

• 1. Culture (e.g. literature, language, popular
  culture) supports imperialism and is one way to
  spread it.
• 2. The definition of the self and others are
  based upon representations rather than reality
• 3. a series of binary oppositions (exact
  opposites) were employed to at once define the
  colonised subjects and the colonising masters.

The West as civilised, just, moral, industrious, rational, Masculine The Oriental as savage, lewd, lazy, superstitious, feminine
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cultural imperialism (1) Theories

• Justifica-tion of Racism

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cultural imperialism (1) Examples of White
Mans burden

• 1. Africa
• "The conquest of the earth, which mostly means
  the taking it away from those who have a
  different complexion or slightly flatter noses
  than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you
  look at it too much. What redeems it is the idea
  only. An idea at the back of it not a
  sentimental pretence but an idea an unselfish
  belief in the idea something you can set up, and
  bow down before, and offer sacrifice to (Joseph
  Conrad's Heart of Darkness)
• Others Out of Africa, Sheltering Sky, The
  English Patient.

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cultural imperialism (1) Examples of White
Mans burden

• 1. Africa

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cultural imperialism (1)

• White vs. Black Edouard Manet Olympia, 1863

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cultural imperialism (2) Examples

• 2. The Caribbean
• The Tempest Caliban
• Robinson Crusoe Friday
• Jane Eyre the madwoman Bertha
• Mansfield Park dependant on the business from
  the West Indian Estate (in Antigua)
• And many other Victorian novels.

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cultural imperialism (2) Examples

• 2. The Orient
• Orientalism presenting the East as the Other
  (weaker, less civilized, inscrutable, wicked), or
  as the exotic e.g. Arabian Nights, Madame
  Butterfly and all the images of Oriental women as
  sumissive, sexual and sweet.
• English Studies in India
• Taiwan Popularity of translations of American
  novels such as those of Hemingway and Jack
  London.
• Taiwan Un-self-reflective absorption of English
  literary canon/values

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cultural imperialism (3) Ethnic Colors

Furniture from Artikeln
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Cultural Imperialism Effects

• self-hatredinferiority complex or
• Split Subject (e.g. Black Skin, White Mask)
• Resistance