Title: Post-Colonialism (1): Colonialism Defined
1Post-Colonialism (1) Colonialism Defined
2Starting 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?
3Post-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
4Colonialism 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
5Colonialism Flows of Natural Resources and People
- Triangular
- Trade
- 2. Middle Passage
6Colonialism flows of migration
1st World Colonial powers Adventurers, Army, travelers, missionaries, immigrants Third World Slaves, Contract laborers, Students, businessmen, etc.
7cultural 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
8cultural imperialism (1) Theories
9cultural 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.
10cultural imperialism (1) Examples of White
Mans burden
11cultural imperialism (1)
- White vs. Black Edouard Manet Olympia, 1863
12cultural 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.
13cultural 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
14cultural imperialism (3) Ethnic Colors
Furniture from Artikeln
15Cultural Imperialism Effects
- self-hatredinferiority complex or
- Split Subject (e.g. Black Skin, White Mask)
- Resistance