Sameer Al- Shraah Broad Area reading list Dr. Thomas Slater Albee‚ Edward. The American dream ; and‚ The zoo story : two plays. New York : Plume‚ 1997. Davis‚ Jack. No Sugar. Sydney : Currency Press‚ 1986. Fugard‚ Athol. My Children! My Africa! New York‚ NY : Theatre Communications Group‚ 1990. ---.Master Harold-- and the boys. New York : S. French‚ 1982. ---.The Blood Knot. Cape Town : Oxford University Press‚ 1992. Miller‚ Arthur. Death of a salesman. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea
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Post Colonial Critism Thesis In many works of literature‚ specifically those coming out of Africa‚ the Middle East‚ and the Indian Subcontinent‚ we meet characters who are struggling with their identities in the wake of colonization‚ or the establishment of colonies in another nation. For example‚ the British had a colonial presence in India from the 1700s until India gained its independence in 1947. As you can imagine‚ the people of India as well as the characters in Indian novels must deal with
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The term subaltern alludes to any individual or group of inferior rank and station‚ may be for race‚ class‚ sex‚ gender‚ ethnicity or religion. It is the social group who is socially‚ politically and geographically outside of the hegemonic power structure of the colony and of the colonial country. It is derived from the social authority or hegemonic work of Antonio Gramsci‚ which distinguished the social groups who are excluded from a general society’s set up structures for political representation
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Ania Loomba displays how “women’s struggles for equality continue after formal independence and define the nature of postcoloniality” (Loomba 188). Loomba indicates that the nature of postcoloniality is that women are “cast as mothers or wives and are called upon to literally and figuratively reproduce the nation” (Loomba 180). This is shown in the novels‚ Xala by Ousmane Sembene and the autobiographical I‚ Rigoberta Menchu:An Indian Woman in Guatemala by Elizabeth Burgos-Debray. In Xala‚ set in
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According to Bhabha‚ hybridity is the straddling of two cultures and the consequent ability to negotiate the difference. Bhabha developed his concept of hybridity from literary and cultural theory to describe the construction of culture and identity within conditions of colonial antagonism and inequality. For Bhabha‚ hybridity is the process by which the colonial governing authority tries to convert the identity of the colonized within a singular universal framework. The colonizers would look at
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Nicole Wineland-Thomson Short Essay #2 Edward W. Said November 12‚ 2009 Edward Said’s Critique of Orientalism Examining the Pacific Studies discipline in New Zealand as Orientalist Edward Said ’s critique of the set of beliefs known as Orientalism forms an important background for anthropological studies. His work highlights the inaccuracies of a wide variety of assumptions as it questions various models of thought‚ which are accepted on individual‚ academic‚ and political levels. Said’s
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DiGioia 1 Vito DiGioia November 4‚ 2005 English 115 Women More Focused on in the Kamasutra According to the articles "Pliant and Compliant: Colonial Indian Art and post Colonial Cinema" by Gita Rajan and the "Kamasutra: It Isn’t all About Sex by Wendy Doniger"‚ these two texts argue how women are talked about more in the Kamasutra more than and is proven in both articles by citing information from the Kamasutra. Both authors have the same techniques as to stating evidence that is used from
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Rachit Anand Professor Subarno Chattarji Department of English‚ University of Delhi 13-10-2013 A Critical Analysis of Homi K. Bhabha’s "How Newness Enters The World: Postmodern space‚ postcolonial times and the trials of cultural translation" The Indian theorist Homi K. Bhabha shifted the limelight from the binary1 of the colonizer and the colonized to the liminal spaces in-between in the domain of Postcolonial studies. In Difference‚ Discrimination‚ and the Discourse of Colonialism‚ he stated‚
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The poem "Africa" reflects the poet’s vision of an independent and sovereign Africa. Diop was strongly critical of Europe and denounced colonialism to the hilt especially during the Second World War when Africans fought and died for the sake of the Europeans. Diop voices his angst about the exploitation of Africa by the colonisers through this poem specially in the moving description of Africa during colonization. The glorious‚ pre-colonial Africa is no longer the present Africa. The lingering memories
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Postcoloniality and Subaltern Studies Postcoloniality and subaltern studies are studies done regarding a specific culture influenced by colonialism but the perspective in which they are done is different. Postcoloniality study by definition is a specifically post-modern intellectual dissertation that consists of reactions to‚ and analysis of‚ the cultural effects of colonialism. Subaltern studies on the other hand is the analysis of the dimensions of colonialism and how it affected cultures but
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