POSTCOLONIALISM

By: Liza F. Badillo Cruz

March 2, 2009.
ENGG 630
Contemporary Literary Theory
Professor: Dr. Evelyn Lugo
Mondays 6:00-9:00pm
Objectives:
Definitions or concepts of what is
Postcolonialsm?

Major Figures

KeyTerms

Examples
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Postcolonialism:
Postcolonialism (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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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)
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?v=3pmkfvzmLdU
Major Figures:

Edward Said Wole Soyinka

Homi Bhabha Salman Rushdie

Frantz Fanon Jamaica Kincaid

Gayatri Spivak Buchi Emecheta

Chinua Achebe
Key Terms

Alterity-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.
Imperialsm-extending the control
or authorithy over foreing entities
as a means of acquisition and
maintenance of empires, either
through direct territorial control.
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.
Examples:

Books:
Achebe, Things Fall Apart

Soyinka, The Lion and the Jewel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qy6wo2wpT2k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NM37tB_F96o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygNuRpwZqRU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbtA0TIyoI8
Films:

Mississipi Masala(Mira Nair,1992)

Sugar Cane Alley,(1984)

Xala, (1974)

Whale Rider, (2004)

References:
Siegel, Kristi Dr. Introduction to Modern Literary
Theory.
Recuperado el 1 de Febrero de 2009.
http://www. Kristisiegel.com/theory.htm

Postcolonialism-Wikipedia, la Enciclopedia Libre.

Recuperado el 17 de Febrero de 2009.

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postcolonialism

Yifen, Beus Dr. Postcolonial Literature and Film.

Recuperado el 17 de Febrero de 2009.
http://w2.byuh.edu/academics/ICS/ICS
%20401A.htm