EL382 Freedom from Oppression: Literature that Changed the World “The Invisible Irish” Re-asserting literature from below: memoir as a means of establishing postcolonial identity and/or history. 2012‚ Mark: HD 90% “Memory is not about recovering a past but about the production of possibility-memory is a recreation‚ not a looking backwards‚ but a reaching out to a horizon‚ somewhere ’out there ’”.1
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There is no doubt that upon reading Albert’s Camus’ Exile and the Kingdom1‚ there are many elements that‚ together‚ contribute to the overall effect of its presentation. Whether these components are literary or personal insights‚ what is definite is that the Nobel Prize winner strives for introducing and refining the theme of mental exile. Having been a pied-noir – of European descent born in Algeria – Camus effectively portrays some of his experiences through one of his fictional protagonists‚ Daru
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Race and Ethnicity According to Allen and Chang‚ “Race and ethnicity are socially constructed identities that vary across time‚ space‚ situation‚ and perception” Hence‚ whilst race refers to a person’s physical appearance such as skin colour‚ eye colour‚ hair colour‚ bone/jaw structure and other defining characteristics‚ ethnicity relates to cultural factors such as nationality‚ culture‚ ancestry‚ language and beliefs. It is important to note that ethnic differences are wholly learned although
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*Urban Unrest in France (Nov. 30th* Reflection) The two articles both discussed the uprisings of young people in France due to racism and poverty on the outskirts of the mega city‚ which dates back to the history of colonialism. The first reading by Balibar (2007) the author addresses the riots in banlieues through categories such as: names‚ violence‚ post-colony‚ religion‚ race and class‚ citizenship/the Republic‚ and politics/anti-politics. Furthermore‚ the author answers important key words
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A Critical Commentary of Homi Bhabha’s ‘Of Mimicry and Man: The ambivalence of Colonial discourse’ Homi Bhabha explains the weaknesses of colonial discourse by suggesting that the techniques which ‘broadcast the dominance and impenetrability’ (Kumar-Das 1992:362) of the subject causes its weaknesses to arise. Bhabha makes a psychoanalytic analysis based on the work of Jacques Lacan and Frantz Fanon‚ among several authors. His definition of colonial mimicry takes the form of discussing the issues
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Edward Said and His Concepts: Orientalism and Imaginative Geographies Introduction In an attempt to provide basic knowledge and clarity‚ this paper discusses two of Edward Said’s sociological concepts – Orientalism and imaginative geographies – defines the two concepts‚ and also provides examples for each. The research will be done by digging into the works of academics and average people alike‚ and piecing their works together to explain Edward Said’s two concepts. This paper also discusses
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"the visibility of mimicry is always produced at the site of interdiction". This means that when discourses or interdictions about mimicry are being created‚ not everything is spoken about. There are certain things which are suppressed so that the self doesn’t encounter the inauthenticity of its own self. Camouflaging is very important because if I become aware of the fact that I can never be like the other then it can create troubles. So to avoid troubles I have to blur the line so that you don’t
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Celebrating their diversity and non-belonging‚ transcultural-hybrid novels are believed to create hybrid discourses that may destabilize meaning and identity as well. For Moslund‚ hybridity itself is a highly problematic term in this connection. It is used haphazardly in the field of migration literature to denote or connote states of both cultural fusion and multiplication‚ or amalgamation and doubleness (15). What I propose here is that hybridity could be seen as a significant point from which
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Orientalism is a book written by Edward Said‚ the ‘father’ of post-colonialism. He is also called as ‘A man of controversy’‚ where his writings influenced many theories‚ activists‚ and also changed most of post-colonial studies of the Middle East in the United State and Europe drastically‚ especially in literary studies‚ history‚ sociology‚ anthropology‚ and comparative religion studies. His writings have been translated into 26 languages‚ receives lots of review including critics and enthusiasts
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The Post-colonial experiences has made the relationships of families much more difficult due to the fragmentation throughout the country. Children and adults lost their homeland and the struggles they had in their homeland. The development of the colonizer’s land‚ made them to become confused with where their loyalties should lie. In Arundhati Roy’s novel ‘The God of Small Things’‚ the Kochamma family is a family of tragic situations and tragic people. It is their own cultural traditions that lead
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