Post-Colonialism Dracula Presentation

Post-Colonialism in Dracula

Essay by Gregory Castle

Terminology

Orientalism

• How Europeans Rationalized Colonialism, by separating the culturally superior "West" and the inferior "East", where "the East" needed to be saved by "the West"

Othering (alteirity)

• "a process by which the empire can define itself against those it colonizes, excludes and marginalizes." (Spivak)

Nationalism

• The development of a national identity in colonial independence movements, for both Colonizer and Colonized

Reverse Colonization

• Return of a colonized people or land to native control

Mimicry

• The means by which the colonized adapts to the culture of the colonizer

Bram stoker and ireland

reverse colonization

• The Crew of Light vs. Count Dracula
• Colonizing and the other
• Threat of anticolonialism

• Imperialism and the patriarchy
• Postcolonial discontinuities, reversals, and intertias

colonization

What are some ways that Dracula is simultaneously acting as the colonized and the colonizer?

Dracula serves as a prime example of being "othered" in a post-colonial context (Par 8, 11, 15)

"Containing" the "undead other"

• Castle notes that the type of documentation by the crew of light serves in many ways as an act of “containment,” containing this “undead other.”

The crew of light controls the narrative?

• Jonathan's Diary serves as an expression of colonial desire (11). “Colonial desire compels the subject to regulate the other”
• (15) "The other is static, null, and removed from history"

Building ethos as a colonizer? Did you see the documentation as a form of maintaining the truth, or perhaps controlling the narrative?

Orientalism

-With the colonizer mindset, nothing can be learned from "them" unless it's already "ours." -Dracula is only knowable in the context of the crew of light documenting his existence -He is "unknowable and uncontainable," which is a threat and a risk to the colonizer's 'superiority.' -The Undead Other= symbolism for unreliable documentation -Dracula represents the erosion of national identity, monster and human

Mimicry

• Lucy's Vamped State as Mimicry

• Dracula Himself Mimicking the Colonizer

• Mockery of Mimicry

Dracula represents difference and alteirity by "challenging contrasts of orientalist discourse" (par 7)

Orientalist discourse: Binomial differences

• assumption of Western superiority over the East, promoting binary differences of us/them, colonizer/colonized. "These are all used to produce, reproduce, and regulate alterity." (par 7)

The knowledge of the other isn't "valuable"

• Epistemological ethnocentism
• "there is nothing to be learned from 'them' unless it is already 'ours'" (par 7).

Chpt 1. "The strangest figures we saw were the Slovaks, who are more barbarian than the rest, with their big cowboy hats (othering Quincy?)...they are...very harmless" (pg 31).

English Lady & Nationalism

Lucy as a symbol

ENglish Lady

• Symbol of Refinement
• Undead
• Defense of Culture

Lucy and Dracula - Both contradictory Binaries. (Par 13, 2, 19)

Lucy's vamping - mimicry of the colonial production of the other

• "in which she is both the English lady and the colonized other, demonized and humanized" (13).

European Identity rooted in the other

• Castle argues that the European identity is inherently rooted in the negative construction of the other. But this identity is distorted in this depiction as Mina and Lucy become reverse colonized (13)

Dracula - colonizer and other

• "Dracula’s identity as conqueror and conquered complicates the heart of imperialism" (2)
• "Vampirism doesn't create new humans but forces itself on the body as “other” "(19)

Your crew of darkness

Logan

Madeline wendorf

Helen "resident other" Grote

*Gnawing at the bars of my enclosure*

"Why use big word when little word do trick?"

ElizabethGust

AlexNelson

Shhhhh

call me qunicy the way I.. I uhhh... the way I... uhhh.. the way I..

Questions?

Justice for

Quincy

The american other

Victim of colonization

TIMELINE

1870

1860

1880

1892

1890

Quincy birth

Gets his first gun

Probably shooting guns

Quincy dies age 32

Pew pew Pew

75%

of my thoughts on the novel surround Quincy Morris.

THANKS!

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