Please enable JavaScript.

Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.

Postcolonial Critisim, Writing from - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Telling things from the perspectives of those colonized to see their influence on literary works.
    - - Postcolonial literature seeks to assert the richness and validity of indigenous cultures in an effort to restore pride in practices and traditions that were systematically degraded under colonialism.
    - - Claiming and exploiting foreign lands, resources, and
        people. Postcolonial literature attempts to counteract their resulting alienation from their surroundings by restoring a connection.
  - - - Using colonizer's language and remolding it to reflect the rhythms and syntax of indigenous languages, and inventing new words and styles to demonstrate mastery of a language that was, in a sense, forced upon them.
    - - reshape imported colonial art-forms to incorporate the style, structure, and themes of indigenous modes of creative expression, such as oral poetry and dramatic performances.
    - - use detailed descriptions of indigenous people, places, and practices colonizers circulated in educational, legal, political, and social texts and settings.
- - - - Otherness includes doubleness, both identity and difference
        
        Abdul Jan Mohamed argues, on the
        Manichean allegory: the western concept of the oriental is based, seeing the world as divided and all is reduced to a set of dichotomies
        
        Colonized people are different one from another and from their own pasts, and should not be totalized or essentialized through such concepts
      - Built around the concept of resistance
        
        The problem: resistance
        always inscribes the resisted into the texture of the resisting
        
        Carries with it ideas about human
        freedom, liberty, identity, individuality
      - Concept of producing a national/cultural literature is a foreign concept to the traditions of the colonized peoples
        
        Had no literature (is conceived in the western traditions/no literature or writing at all)
        
        Didn't see art as a way of constructing and defining cultural identity
        
        Transported into a wholly different geographical/political/economic/cultural world
    - - reclaim or reconstitute its identity in a language that is now but was not its own language, and genres which are now but were not the genres of the colonized
    - - Transnational: contemporary postcolonial discourses are rooted in specific histories of cultural displacement
      - Translational: how culture signifies, or what is signified by culture
  - - - An attempt to replicate, continue, equal, the original tradition, to write in accord with British
      - Self-consciously a literature of
        otherness and resistance, and is written out of the specific local experience
- - - - Edward Said (1978)
        
        The study of postcolonial literature was spurred almost entirely by publication of Edward Said’s critical work in Orientalism.
        
        Said’s work dissected the link phenomena of Europian colonization of Africa and Asia
        
        its attendant oppression and racism and the simultaneous tendency of European to romanticise “the East”
- - - - Africa
      - Indian sub-continent
      - The Caribbean
      - Other regions whose histories during the 20th century are marked by colonialism, anti-colonial movements and subsequent transitions to post-Independence society.
  - - - Racial stereotypes. Assumptions were often made about particular races, e.g. the violent Arab, the lazy Indian, the inscrutable Chinaman, etc.
      - Gender stereotypes. The Eastern male was portrayed as effeminate, and the Eastern
        female was stereotyped as sexually promiscuous.
  - - - Postcolonial criticism can engage with the study of canonical texts where there is a key absence
    - - Postcolonial criticism can comment on texts written by authors living within, or having experience of, countries that have been colonies.
    - - Referring to the study of modern texts about countries that are now independent but still hugely influenced by the colonial experience.
    - - Postcolonial criticism can refer more broadly to the study of literatures grouped by their authors’ ethnicity and race.