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Title: POSTCOLONIALISM


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POSTCOLONIALISM
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  • Definition
  • Context
  • Themes
  • Literature
  • Representants
  • Text
  • Today

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  • Post-colonialism is an umbrella term

POST -
- ISM
- COLONIAL -
It is a Latinate prefix referring to something
coming after something and, therefore,
Post-colonialism is a movement referring to
something previous.
Post The second part of the term refers to
Colonialism. Since Post-colonialism comes after
Colonialism.
The suffix ism generally brings with it a
critical attitude. As a matter of fact, when a
new movement rises, since it sounds rather
strange and it is not immediately well accepted.
  • Postcolonialism, like other post-isms, does not
    signal a closing off of that which it contains
    (colonialism), or even a rejection, but rather an
    opening of a field of inquiry and understanding
    following a period of relative closure.

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Postcolonialism and Postcolonial Literature
  • a period of time after colonialism
  • postcolonial literature characterized by its
    opposition to the colonial.
  • It deals with literature produced in countries
    that once were colonies of other countries,
    ?bEuropean colonial powers (Britain, France, and
    Spain)
  • in some contexts, it includes countries still in
    colonial arrangements.
  • it also deals with literature written in
    colonial countries
  • It is about their citizens colonized people as
    subject matter.

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Further definition
  • the social, political, economic, and cultural
    practices which arise in response and resistance
    to colonialism
  • ? an always present tendency in any literature of
    subjugation marked by a systematic process of
    cultural domination through the imposition of
    imperial structures of power.

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  • European colonialism began in the 15th century,
    with Portugal's conquest of Ceuta, Portuguese and
    Spanish exploration of the Americas, and the
    coasts of Africa, the Middle East, India, and
    East Asia.
  • The latter half of the sixteenth century
    witnessed the expansion of the English state
    throughout Ireland
  • the 17th century France and the Netherlands
    successfully established their own overseas
    empires
  • The end of the 18th and early 19th century saw
    the first era of decolonization
  • Britain, France and the Netherlands turned their
    attention to the Old World
  • The industrialization of the 19th century led to
    what has been termed the era of New Imperialism.

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  • Postcolonialism includes a vast array of writers
    and subjects. It mainly focuses on
  • the need in nations or groups which have been
    colonized to achieve an uncontaminated identity
  • the relations and the effects of racism
  • racism or history of genocide, including
    slavery, apartheid and mass extinction
  • the relationship between postcolonialism and
    feminism
  • how a colonized people's knowledge served the
    colonizers interests, and how the subordinate
    people's knowledge is generated and used
  • the ways in which the colonist's literature
    justified colonialism via images of the colonized
    as a perpetually inferior person, society, and
    culture

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Summarizing
  • the need, in nations, or groups which have been
    victims of imperialism
  • to achieve an identity uncontaminated
  • by universalist or Eurocentric concepts or
    images.

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  • Postcolonial texts
  • will incorporate culturally specific details,
    often not offering translations or explanations
    of non-European practices, de-centering the
    European-based reading.
  • In addition, the texts very often decenter the
    white characters, who become faceless, nameless
    representatives of a dominating power, shifting
    the power relationships within the text.
  • Finally, it is most important to stress the ever
    changing nature of postcolonialism as a defining
    term, as it responds to the material conditions
    under which people live in colonial and
    neo-colonial situations.

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  • J.M. Coetzee
  • Daniel Defoe

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  • Foe (J.M. Coetzee)
  • Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe)

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  • Colonization as a modern phenomenon
  • modern colonialism was not a discrete occurrence
  • an examination of pre-modern colonial activities
    will allow for more complex understanding of
    modern structures of power and domination,
  • they may illuminate the operation of older
    histories in the context of both modern
    colonialism and contemporary race and global
    political relations.
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