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Postcolonial Theory
Part 1: Intro to Postcolonial Theory
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Postcolonial Theory
Postcolonial Literature
Postcolonial Theory
- Justification of colonialism
- Distorted retelling
- Founding National myths
- Imagery
- Beautiful landscape
- Uncivilised indigenous people
- Uneducated indigenous people
- Ugliness (race inferiority) of the indigenous people
- Generosity and benevolence of the coloniser
SUPERIORITY
By the colonisers
+ INFO
+ INFO
- After & Before
- Resistance
- Victimisation
- The Western Media
- National or Cultural Literature
- Different conception
- Different purpose
- A construct
- Language
- Assimilation
- A strategy of survival
- Transnational
- Translational
IDENTITY
By the colonised
Nuruddin Farah (Somalia)
Nadifa Mohamed (Somalia)
Wole Soyinka (Nigeria)
Chinua Achebe (Nigeria)
Ngugi Wa Thiong’o (Kenya)
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A critical approach focused on the territories that were or still are colonies of other countries. It especially studies the literature of these countries, both colonised and colonising, which deals with the colonization or the colonised people.