Introduction Part of Ania Loomba’s Colonialism/Postcolonialism

1. Introduction Part of Ania Loomba’s
Colonialism/Postcolonialism
Name : Solanki Sardarsinh
Roll No :24 Semester : 3 Year : 2014-15
Paper 11 : The Postcolonial Literature
Submitted to:
Smt. S.B.Gardi
Department Of English
M.K.Bhavnagar University

2. Introduction
 She received her B..A,
M.A and M.Phill degrees
from the Delhi University
 She researches and
teaches early modern
literature, histories of race
and colonialism, postcolonial
studies, feminist theory, and
cotemporary Indian literature
and culture

3. What is Colonialism?
“A settlement in a new country… a body of people
who settle in a new locality, forming a community
subject to or connected with their parent state; the
community so formed , consisting of the original
settlers and their descendants and successors, as
long as the connection with the parent state
is kept up.”
-Ania Loomba’s colonialism/
postcolonialism

4. Roots of colonialism and postcolonialism
 No much difference
 It’s roots were in the Columbus arrival
for the new found land.

5. Ania Loomba’s views about
colonialism/postcolonialism
 Colonialism is the physical
occupation of territory and
post colonialism deals with
the effects of colonization on
culture and societies

6. Imperialism
Neo-colonialism
Colonial literature

7. Imperialism
 The Oxford English Dictionary defines ‘imperial’ as
‘pertaining to empire’ and ‘imperialism’ as the rule of
an emperor, especially when despotic and arbitrary
 This word is coined by British prime minister Benjamin

8. Neo-colonialism
 It is the highest stage of colonialism
 The main aim of the it is that, after world war-2
maintain control of their formal colonies and
economic arrangement

9. Colonial literature
War creates the vast influenced on the mind of
the writers
 Aime Cesaire,s “A Tempest”
 Girish Karnad’s “Hayavadana”
 Gaytri Spivak’s “Can the Subaltern Speak”