In this exam I will demonstrate my knowledge of the postcolonial theoretical school and its relationship to ethnography and anthropology. The connection between colonialism and anthropology is an old one. Depending on when one sets the beginning of what we call Aanthropology‚@ issues of imperialism‚ colonialism and colonial justification go back as far as recorded history. For the purposes of this exam‚ I will focus on the current colonial/postcolonial paradigm that began with the age of European
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In this chapter‚ four key concepts in the realm of Post colonialism will be elaborated‚ namely: Identity‚ Otherness‚ Racism‚ and finally‚ Hybridity. However‚ before that a brief introduction to the emergence of postists like modernism‚ postmodernism and finally postcolonialism will be presented to analyze the application of these concepts in the two mentioned plays. The Rise of the Postists “What I detested above all was Hegelianism and the dialectic.” (Deleuze 110) What is quoted from
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The world of the “exotic” and strangeness is an inherently interesting subject matter among people. Fascinations with the “other” world are depicted in poems‚ novels‚ literary descriptions and art as an attempt to understand‚ romanticise or exploit another culture. The Napoleonic expedition to Egypt from 1798 to 1799 brought forth a heightened interest among artists to explore the world of the Oriental and spurred a torrent of “Orientalists” which became a pervasive force in 19th Century Western
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a recreation‚ not a looking backwards‚ but a reaching out to a horizon‚ somewhere ’out there ’”.1 (Ben Okri) This essay aims to introduce and address some of the ways in which memoir as a literary genre is a companion to postcolonial literature‚ in the sense that they both endorse and reinforce each other’s concerns. Memoir complements postcolonial concerns of re-assessing
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play of power. A discourse of knowledge is a discourse of power‚ for knowledge is an effort not only at ordering facts‚ social events and human activities‚ but also of ordering human beings according to a given center.2 In 1978‚ Edward Said published his Orientalism‚ a work that builds on Foucault ’s insights and that has become the reference work for postcolonial studies.3 In it‚ he argues that Orientalism‚ which is the academic study of‚ and
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intellectual and explain why. During this assignment I am going to do a case study on a person I consider to be a public intellectual. There are a number of discourses surrounding the ideology of what it means to be a public intellect. In regards to this essay I will be defining a public intellect in accordance with Gramsci view of an organic intellectual as‚ ‘the function of the intellectual is to help the oppressed understand their own exploitative class positioning’ (Hoben‚ undated‚ p4). In accordance
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Critical Reading Starting with the epigraph of “Aynalara bakma‚ aynalar fenalık‚ denizi‚ sonsuz olanı düşün artık (p.5)” from Ahmet Muhip Dıranas‚ narration of Fehmi K. ve Acayip Serüvenleri reminds a transition from imaginary order inholding Lacanist mirror phase to a symbolic order (Arıkan‚ 2015 p.386). Lacan synthesizes the linguistic theory of Ferdinand de Saussure‚ describing Freud’s unconscious concept as a system of indigenous representations‚ based on the symbolic order on which the language
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latter sense by James G. Carrier in his book Occidentalism: Images of the West (1995)‚ and subsequently by Ian Buruma and Avishai Margalit in their book Occidentalism: the West in the Eyes of its Enemies (2004). The term is an inversion of Orientalism‚ Edward Said’s label for stereotyped Western views of the East. A number of earlier books had also used the term‚ sometimes with different meanings‚ such as Chen Xiaomei’s Occidentalism: A Theory of Counter-Discourse in Post-Mao China (New York: Oxford‚ 1995)
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Homeland and Migration‚ either as a theme or sub-theme‚ reappears regularly in postcolonial literature. The foremost Nigerian poet‚ Odia Ofeimun‚ is notable for his reiterative exploration of these themes in his London Letter and Other Poems (2010). Ofeimun’s concern in London Letter is mainly on how the persona views his homeland from the diaspora‚ more so‚ the relationships that exist between Lagos and other cities he travelled to during his sojourn in Europe. This study‚ therefore‚ examines the
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Religion is ignorance? For many years‚ the various religions of the world have been of great importance as identity markers among a number of different cultures. There are many ways to practice one’s values and beliefs‚ and religion has‚ quite obvious‚ not just been the root of solidarity and intellectual fellowship. In the bigger perspective‚ religious differences have led to war and other severe disagreements. Gradually as the world has become globalized‚ people‚ and especially Muslims‚ are immigrating
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