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    POST-CO LO NI A L I S M

    COLONIALISM
    • THE LEGITIMIZED MODERN INVASION, OCCUPATION AND EXPLOITATION OF AN
    INHABITED LAND BY A FOREIGN MILITARY POWER.

    • IMPOSITION OF ALIEN RULES AND THE UNIMPEDED USE OF NATURAL


    RESOURCES AND MANPOWER.

    • INDIGENOUS/NATIVE INHABITANTS' CULTURE AND TRADITIONS ARE


    ELIMINATED.
    POST-COLONIALISM
    •EMERGED AS A CHALLENGE TO TRADITION AND LEGACY OF COLONIALISM

    •IT ATTEMPTS TO
    MOVE AWAY FROM THE IDEA OF AN ESTABLISHED POWER
    THROUGH CONQUEST

    •DEALS WITH THE EFFECTS OF COLONIZATION ON CULTURES AND SOCIETIES


    OF THE COLONIAL AND THE COLONIZER
    POST COLONIAL LITERATURE
    • THIS IS THE BODY OF LITERATURE WRITING THAT REACTS TO THE
    DISCUSSION ON COLONIZATION

    • IT INVOLVES WRITINGS THAT DEAL WITH ISSUES OF DECOLONIZATION

    • A LITERARY CRITIQUE TO TEXTS THAT CARRY RACIST OR COLONIAL


    UNDERTONES
    THE POST COLONIAL WRITER

    • TAKES BASIC ASSUMPTIONS OF BRITISH TEXTS AND REVEALS THESE


    ASSUMPTIONS

    • E.G. ( CHINUA ACHEBE’S THINGS FALL APART )


    POST-COLONIAL CONCEPTS/ISSUES

    • ABROGATION
    • AGENCY
    • EXILE
    • DEPENDENCY THEORY
    ABROGATION
    • THE REJECTION BY POST COLONIAL WRITERS OF THE ESTABLISHED CONCEPT
    OF A ‘CORRECT’ OR ‘STANDARD’ ENGLISH USED BY CERTAIN CLASSES OR
    GROUPS AND OF THE CORRESPONDING CONCEPTS OF INFERIOR DIALECTS

    • OFTEN USED IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE TERM APPROPRIATION


    • ABROGATION IS THE STANCE FROM WHICH APPROPRIATION OF THE ENGLISH
    LANGUAGE CAN TAKE PLACE
    AGENCY
    • REFERS TO THE ABILITY TO ACT OR PERFORM AN ACTION

    • IN POST COLONIAL THEORY IT REFERS TO THE ABILITY OF POST COLONIAL


    SUBJECTS TO INDICATE ACTION IN ENGAGING OR RESISTING IMPERIAL POWER

    • ARE THE FORCES THAT CONSTRUCTED OUR SOCIETY BEFORE INDEPENDENCE


    STILL AFFECTING US TODAY?
    EXILE
    • THE IDEA OF SEPARATION/DISTANCING FROM EITHER A LITERAL HOMELAND
    OR FROM A CULTURAL AND ETHNIC ORIGIN.

    • CREATES A CONFLICT OF RACE AND ETHNICITY FOR THE ‘NATIVE-


    BORN’COLONIZER WHO WISHES TO CLAIM INSIDER KNOWLEDGE AND YET
    RETAIN ‘RACIAL’ DISTINCTION.

    • COLONIZED PEOPLE PRESSURED TO EXILE THEMSELVES FROM THEIR OWN


    CULTURES, LANGUAGES AND TRADITIONS. ALONG WITH THE PRODUCTION OF
    THE ‘IN-BETWEEN’CLASS OF ‘WHITE BUT NOT QUITE’.
    DEPENDENCY THEORY
    • THE CONTINUED IMPOVERISHMENT OF ‘THIRD WORLD’ COUNTRIES IS NOT
    INTERNALLY GENERATED BUT A STRUCTURAL CONDITION OF GLOBAL
    CAPITALISM.

    • MOST ‘UNDERDEVELOPED’ COUNTRIES ARE USUALLY FORMALLY COLONIZED


    STATES THAT ARE PREVENTED FROM INDEPENDENT DEVELOPMENT BY
    GLOBAL CAPITALISM.
    GLOBALIZATION

    • THE PROCESS WHEREBY INDIVIDUAL LIVES AND LOCAL COMMUNITIES ARE


    AFFECTED BY CULTURAL FORCES THAT OPERATE WORLD-WIDE.

    • THE PROCESS OF MAKING THE WORLD ONE PLACE.


    POST COLONIALISM AND GLOBALIZATION

    • POST COLONIAL THEORIST SEE GLOBALIZATION AS SOMETHING WHICH GOES


    BEYOND MODERNISM AND CONTAINS POST COLONIAL CONTENTS

    • GLOBALIZATION IS SEEN MORE AS A BREAK AWAY FROM OR A


    TRANSCENDENCE OF MODERNITY THAN ITS CONTINUATION

    • POST COLONIAL THEORIST ALSO CHALLENGED THE DEPENDENCY THEORIES


    OF WESTERN CULTURAL IMPERIALISM
    POST-COLONIAL THEORISTS
    DEEPIKA BAHRI

    • GAYATRI SPIVAK

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