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Title: Postcolonial theory


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Post-colonial theory
  • Lecture 7

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Part 1 Introducing the area of study
  • 1) Linking the past to the present
  • 2) Magnitude of inquiry
  • 3) Whats involved
  • Literary turn
  • Historical archives
  • Feminist perspectives
  • In short, diversity of perspectives

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Part 1 continued.
  • 4) Ideas generated by post-colonial theorists
  • Post-modern theories of identity
  • Inter-play class, gender, ethnicity, sexuality
    and race
  • New terminology
  • Particular local to Universal global

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Part 1 continued.
  • 5) The types of questions asked by
  • Feminist scholars
  • Marxist scholars
  • Anthropologists/ sociologists
  • Methodological questions

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Part 2 Key writers
  • Edward Said Orientalism
  • Occident (the West)
  • The Orient (the Rest)
  • Franz Fanon
  • Homi Bhabha

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Part 3 Western women, feminism and colonialism
  • Western Women ignored in studies
  • One side of the argument
  • Collusion with patriarchy
  • Other side of the argument
  • Activists

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Part 4 Post-colonial Identities
  • White Amnesia (Hall)
  • Resistance The past makes sense of the present
  • The past and belonging to the post-colonial
    nation
  • Post-colonial struggles continuation of the
    colonial past

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Part 5 Critiques of post-colonial theory
  • Employing trendy western theories to understand
    the Third World
  • Guilty of ignoring the dynamics of capitalism
  • Dense theories that are jargon

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Counter-critique
  • Academics wary of changing their vocab
  • Capitalism is included
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