Introduction to postcolonial theory

1. Postcolonial
Criticismlinkedin/in/sksaradha

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3. “ I am black; I am in total fusion with the world,
in sympathetic affinity with the earth, losing
my id in the heart of the cosmos--and the
white man, however intelligent he maybe, is
incapable of understanding Louis Armstrong
or songs from the Congo. I am black, not
because of a curse, but because my skin has
been able to capture all the cosmic effluvia. I
am truly a drop of sun under the earth.
Fanon, Black Skin, White Mask
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4. Postcolonial
Criticism
Postcolonial criticism rejects the
claims of universalism by liberal
humanist critics.
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5. Postcolonial
Criticism
Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the
Earth
The first step for the ‘colonised’
people in finding a voice and an
identity is to reclaim their own
past.
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6. Postcolonial
Criticism
Fanon
The second step is to begin to
erode the colonialist ideology by
which that past had been
devalued.
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7. Postcolonial
Criticism
Edward Said, Orientalism
He identifies a European cultural
tradition of ‘orientalism’, which is
a particular and long-standing
way of identifying the East as
‘Other’ and inferior to the West.
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10. Postcolonial
Criticism
In Other Worlds
Gayatri Spivak
‘Race’, Writing
and Difference
Ed. Henry Louis
Gates Jr.
The Empire
Writes Back
Bill Ashcroft, et
al.
Nation and
Narration
Homi Bhabha
Culture and
Imperialism
Edward Said
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