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Postcoloinalism (Postcolonial Novels (Disgrace (Characters (David Lurie,…
Postcoloinalism
Postcolonial Novels
Heart of Darkness
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The English Book
There is no "right" way to go about colonization; annotations (in a Russian) in the novel's English book disrupt the authority that the book might have
Authorship and content don't really matter, Marlow focuses on the care that was taken of the book
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Cambridge
Christiania as subaltern #
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Emily as a narrator is very shielded in the ways she thinks about the world and the culture that she sees around her. #
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Americanah
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Ifamelu
Doesn't feel like she fits in anywhere, lack of true representation (in America and Nigeria)
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The Hungry Tide
Native vs. Visitor
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Tiger attacks are really personal for natives, while Piya feels bad for the tiger when people torture and kill it out of revenge #
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Postcolonial Theory
Homi Bhabha
Mimicry: the way in which hybridity expresses itself. A behavior, when the colonized people act in accordance with the behaviors of the colonizers. Neither pure obedience nor pure disobedience. #
Hybridity: a mixture of two (or more) cultural identities #
English Book: physical, literary embodiment of the colonizer's power over the colonized #
Ambivalence: in culture, a contradiction between 2 (or more) groups--mainly "us" vs. "them," which is inherently contradictory
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Edward Said
Orientalism: the West creates an identity for the East through writing about them. This identity is not necessarily accurate, and it is oppresses the East # # #
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Imperialism: a politically powerful group asserting their dominance over other groups for their own territorial gain
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Colonialism is a product of imperialism. The idea of something being "postcolonial" creates the assumption that the colonial era is over and that imperialism has ended.
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Side note: I had a node for race connected to everything on this map... however I removed it because the links were even more confusing than they are now. I would like to include that race has played an important role throughout the semester, in the theorists work and the novels we have read. Race and racial hierarchy are intrinsic to all of these works. #