1. Anti colonialism, Binarism, Primitivism, The
third world, commonwealth
Name – Shital D Italiya
Roll no – 29
Paper – 11(post colonial literature)
Submitted to - Smt .S.B.Gardy Department of English
M.K.Bhavnagar university
Bhavnagar

2. Anti - colonialism
What is Anti-colonialism?
It emphasizes the
need to reject
colonial power
and restore local
control.
It signifies the point at
which the various forms of
opposition become
articulated as a resistance
to the operations of
colonialism in political,
economic, and cultural
institution.

3. Forms of anti colonialism
 According to Wilmot Blyden, James
Africanus Horton
 2nd half of twentieth century
Anti colonialism
Articulated of a
radical Marxist
discourse of
liberation.
C.L.R.James, Amilcar
cabra and Franz Fanon

4. Cabral Developed the idea of empower
and recognize the local as a
specific and distinct feature of
post colonial politics

5. Binarism
Duality or
combination of
two things
Particular meaning
in post colonial
theory
First established by
French structural
linguistics Ferdinand
De Saussure
Meaning of sign
Example
Sun – Moon
Man – Woman
Birth - Death

6. Contemporary post
structuralist and feminist
theories have demonstrated
the extent to which such
binaries entail has a violent
hierarchy
Example
Man over Woman
Birth over Death
White over Black

7. Tendency of
western thought
in general to see
the world in
terms of binary
opposition that
establish a
relation of
dominance.
Example
Centre/ Margin
Metropolis/
empire
Civilized/ primitive

8. Binary opposition are structurally
related to one another.
Example
Colonizer – colonized
White – Black
Advanced – retarded
Good – evil
Beautiful - ugly

9. Primitivism
Widely used in art
history, identify specific
modern school of art
and writing that
emphasizes simplicity
of form or theme.
Its broader use defines a
form of style perceived to
represent an early stage of
human culture Endeavour.
Thus early human art is
often describe as a primitive
art.
It defines teleological
unfolding of human
history from simple
to complex.

10. The early primitive
 It is a culmination and fulfillment in later sophisticated or civilized
art.
 Uneducated that is untrained and unschooled artist.
 Work does not reflect the dominant artistic conventions.

11. Primitivist

12. Primitive art
Native American Indian Australian Aboriginal art

13. commonwealth
Traditional English term for political
community founded for the
common good.
Historically it has
synonymous with
“republic”
The original phrase “the
commonwealth” comes from
the old meaning of “wealth”
which is well being.
Literary meant “common
well being”

14. 17th century commonwealth meaning
Public welfare
Common weal
A state in which the supreme
power is vested in the
people; a republic or
democratic state.

15. Third world
Used in 1952
during the so
called cold war
period, by the
politician and
economist Alfred
sauvy.
First world was
used widely at
the time to
designate the
dominant
economic power
of the west
Second world
was employed
to refer to the
soviet union
and its satellites

16. First world countries
Canada
Australia
South Africa

17. Third world countries
United Nations