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Postcolonial Resistance and Representation, Works in this section analyze…
Postcolonial Resistance and Representation
Scholarship
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Works in this section are produced with the intent to analyze and critic issues of colonial impact and perspectives through the medium of academia.
Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o, “The Language of African Literature”
is a work concerning itself with the decolonization of Native African language and addresses the issue of the colonization of knowledge, preventing cultural growth and preservation.
Edward Said, from Orientalism
is a work that examines the politics of knowledge as it pertains to the Global West to the Global East. It criticizes the view of the East from the West and the pervasive nature of colonial orientalist views.
Chandra Talpade Mohanty, “Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses"
asks the question of what decolonial discourse looks like from a non-western centric, feminist perspective?
Bandung Conference
Hala Halim, “Lotus, the Afro-Asian Nexus, and Global South Comparatism”
inspired by the Badung Conference, Lotus was an anti-colonialist and socially radical publication that concerned issues pertaining to the global East and South.
Frantz Fanon, “Concerning Violence”
asks the question of 'when is violence necessary?' It proposes that violence is necessary in order to eradicate the inherently violent system of colonialism.
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Under Western Eyes and Our Sister Killjoy both employ themes of feminism under colonization, and what decolonization of feminism means.
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Both From Orientalism and The Language of African Literature reflect on the impact of language and colonialism on a culture's view of itself.
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Violence
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Works in this section analyze physical and cultural violence committed against colonized countries and populations.
Mahasweta Devi, “Draupadi”
is about tangible resistance to oppressive state.
The Act of Killing
is a documentary film following the making of a film about the mass murders of suspected communists during the Cold War in Indonesia. The film itself is being made by the actual perpetrators of the killings.
M. NourbeSe Philip, “Os” from Zong!
I, Rigoberta Menchú
autobiography recounting the life of author Rigoberta Menchu, and the discrimination she faced living in Guatemala as an Indian woman.
“The Cobbler and the Machine”
a story about the negative impact of Western technological expansion on Native communities. In the story, the Uncle is worked to death after buying a sewing machine that he cannot pay off.
Krishan Chander, “The Peshawar Express”
a story documenting the violence that occurred towards Hindu refugees during the Partition of India.
Bessie Head, “The Coming of the Christ-Child”
is about the struggle against South African Apartheid, and her realization that peace cannot be an option, and the inherent violence of struggle.
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Both The Cobbler and the Machine and The First Party examine Indian cultural incompatibility with the West
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Both The Peshawar Express and I, Rigoberta Menchú discuss radicalized and ethnic violence committed towards a group by their country.
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Os and The Act of Killing examine state sanctioned violence that ultimately went unpunished, though they look at the issue from different sides with TAOK following the perpetrator, and Os following the victim.
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Both Draupadi, Concerning Violence, and The Coming of the Christ Child highlight the need for violence when one is oppressed and unable to escape under a colonialist system.
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Culture Clash
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Works in this section analyze the broader issue of colonialism through more personalized accounts of the experience of living in a colonized culture.
Wole Soyinka, Death and the King’s Horseman
While the author would disagree with the term 'culture clash' as it positions colonizer and colonized cultures as equal, the play belongs in this section as it examines the tension between Native African cultural practices and colonialist interference. The play reflects on cultural death and responsibility
Ama Ata Aidoo, Our Sister Killjoy, or Reflections from a Black-eyed Squint
follows the character of Sissy, who comes from Ghana to Europe and reflects on colonialist influence on Ghana from Europe.
R. K. Narayan, “A Horse and Two Goats”
a short story about an Indian man who has only two worthless goats being paid by an American to take a statue of a horse. The story touches on themes of extreme class and monetary vision between cultures, as well as a Western attempt to buy Indian culture to add to their own.
“The First Party”
story about the struggle of a newly married Indian woman and the alienation she feels with Western culture. The creeping influence of the West is represented by a literal marriage between the woman and her Western husband.
Chinua Achebe, “The Sacrificial Egg”
is about a man who has received a western education and is deeply influenced by Western culture ultimately suffering for it. It explores the tension between western education and traditional knowledge.
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The connection between A Horse and Two Goats and Death and the King's Horseman lies in the fundamental lack of understanding between Native cultures and Western cultures. Their cultural development independent of each other make for difficulty in understanding practices that wouldn't be considered normal or moral in one's own culture.
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From Orientalism, Our Sister Killjoy, and The Language of African Literature all reflect and comment on the effect of colonization of education.
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Nonviolence
Raja Rao, “The Cow of the Barricades”
is a story about nonviolent resistance during the Indian Independence movement based off the life and struggle of Indian Freedom fighter Mahatma Gandhi.
Works in this section analyze themes of nonviolent resistance