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Title: Post-Colonialism (1): Colonialism Defined


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Post-Colonialism (1) Colonialism Defined

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Starting Questions
  • What are the examples of colonialism? Is KMTs
    regime an example?
  • What are the examples of colonial thinking (e.g.
    the racial/cultural prejudices and stereotypes)
    in English Literature?
  • Is de-colonization possible?
  • How do we or the colonized resist colonialism in
    life and through literature?

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Post-Colonialism Major Issues
  • Colonialisms
  • Definition
  • cultural Imperialism Theories Examples
  • 2. Post-Colonialism Resistance and Immigration
  • A. Resisting colonialism/Constructing
    postcolonial identities through
  • Language, History and Identity Construction
  • Strategies Separatism (Nativism), Re-Creation,
    Cultural Syncreticism, Mimicry, Active
    participation, Assimilation.
  • examples
  • B. Diaspora and Globalization

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Colonialism Definition and Kinds
  • Definition colonialism --military, economic,
    cultural oppression domination of one country
    over another.
  • Kinds
  • 1. Invasion-colonization
  • 2. Settlement-colonization
  • 3. Internal Colonialism
  • 4. Neo-Colonialism

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Colonialism Flows of Natural Resources and People
  • Triangular
  • Trade
  • 2. Middle Passage

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Colonialism flows of migration
  • Flows of Migrants

1st World Colonial powers Adventurers, Army, travelers, missionaries, immigrants Third World Slaves, Contract laborers, Students, businessmen, etc.
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cultural imperialism (1) Theories
  • 1. Culture (e.g. literature, language, popular
    culture) supports imperialism and is one way to
    spread it.
  • 2. The definition of the self and others are
    based upon representations rather than reality
  • 3. a series of binary oppositions (exact
    opposites) were employed to at once define the
    colonised subjects and the colonising masters.

The West as civilised, just, moral, industrious, rational, Masculine The Oriental as savage, lewd, lazy, superstitious, feminine
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cultural imperialism (1) Theories
  • Justifica-tion of Racism

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cultural imperialism (1) Examples of White
Mans burden
  • 1. Africa
  • "The conquest of the earth, which mostly means
    the taking it away from those who have a
    different complexion or slightly flatter noses
    than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you
    look at it too much. What redeems it is the idea
    only. An idea at the back of it not a
    sentimental pretence but an idea an unselfish
    belief in the idea something you can set up, and
    bow down before, and offer sacrifice to (Joseph
    Conrad's Heart of Darkness)
  • Others Out of Africa, Sheltering Sky, The
    English Patient.

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cultural imperialism (1) Examples of White
Mans burden
  • 1. Africa

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cultural imperialism (1)
  • White vs. Black Edouard Manet Olympia, 1863

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cultural imperialism (2) Examples
  • 2. The Caribbean
  • The Tempest Caliban
  • Robinson Crusoe Friday
  • Jane Eyre the madwoman Bertha
  • Mansfield Park dependant on the business from
    the West Indian Estate (in Antigua)
  • And many other Victorian novels.

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cultural imperialism (2) Examples
  • 2. The Orient
  • Orientalism presenting the East as the Other
    (weaker, less civilized, inscrutable, wicked), or
    as the exotic e.g. Arabian Nights, Madame
    Butterfly and all the images of Oriental women as
    sumissive, sexual and sweet.
  • English Studies in India
  • Taiwan Popularity of translations of American
    novels such as those of Hemingway and Jack
    London.
  • Taiwan Un-self-reflective absorption of English
    literary canon/values

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cultural imperialism (3) Ethnic Colors

Furniture from Artikeln
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Cultural Imperialism Effects
  • self-hatredinferiority complex or
  • Split Subject (e.g. Black Skin, White Mask)
  • Resistance
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