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Post-colonial Discourse (Hybridity (When your identity is split in half…
Post-colonial Discourse
Colonial Discourse
The white man's burden: Colonisation is about firstly brining God to the savages, and secoundly to save them for their own barbarism.
Kill the Indian, save the man.
Rhetoric of the Empire: The literary world of words is not binary but rather hierarchical. When we speak of them, they are automatically beneath "us". This creates othering.
Center/ Periphery
Waiting for the Barbariens: Col. Joell represents the center, those in power which visits the Periphery, The magistrate.
Things Fall Apart: The indigenous people are in the periphery of the colonizing powers. The centre is both the European power and the church, monks.
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Hybridity
When your identity is split in half and you feel a inner conflict between belonging anywhere and belonging nowhere
Persepolis: When she flees from Iran her identity becomes hybrid, her loyalty is split in half.
The Whale Rider: A ancient culture which is clearly affecetd by the modern world. Their identity is hybrid between abandoning the old for the foreign new.
Short-Stories: The joy luck club, Squatter
Integration/assimilation
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Short-Stories: Joy luck club, squatter
Diaspora
Being out of place, Being forced or guided to leave you culture behind and being dispersed.
Short stories: The joy luck club, her mother fled from the japanies-chines war. In Cuba I was a german shepard, he had to flee from his country
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Waiting for the barbarians: The magistrate is out of place, made a foreign in his own fort.
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Orientalism:
The westernly painter picture of the middle east. Savage, alterative medecine.
Epistemic Violence
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Waiting for the barbariens: U want to seperate yourself as much as possible from the barbariens becuase of the violence.
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