Kumar Tiwari Research Scholar Department of English & MEL University of Allahabad‚ Allahabad Colonial Enchanter: Postcolonial Enchantress Postcolonialism is a relation of centre and margin‚ oppressor and oppressed‚ colonizer and colonized or in the words of Aime Cesaire “relations of domination and submission.‟‟ Postcolonialism is largely concerned with the politics of culture and postcolonial studies “involves the critical examination of European representations of colonial peoples and the production
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Reinscribing Conrad: Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North R.S. Krishnan‚ North Dakota State University In the works of postcolonial writers such as Salman Rushdie‚ Derek Walcott‚ Chinua Achebe and others‚ one sees an attempt to resist and reinterpret the ideological underpinnings of imperialist writings‚ an effort in which not just the historical subject of colonial discourse but the discourse itself might be reversed. One such work is Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North J Published
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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‚ "There is always‚ in Said‚ the suggestion that colonial
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Bibliography: 2. Haggard‚ H. Rider. King Solomon’s Mines (penguin popular classics)‚ 1994 3 2. Johnson‚ David‚ Poddar‚ Prem - A historical companion to postcolonial literatures in English (Edinburgh University Press)‚ 2005 3 4. Daniels‚ Patsy J: The voice of the oppressed in the language of the oppressor : a discussion of selected postcolonial literature from Ireland‚ Africa‚ and America (Routledge 2001) 5
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1. What is “postcolonial literature”? Postcolonial literature‚ a category devised to replace and expand upon what was once called Commonwealth Literature. As a label‚ it thus covers a very wide range of writings from countries that were once colonies or dependencies of the European powers. There has been much debate about the scope of the term: should predominantly white ex‐colonies like Ireland‚ Canada‚ and Australia be included? why are the United States exempted both from the accepted list of
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Ethnic Literature and Postcolonialism In Barta’s ; “Gadis Tangsi” Reading by using Postcolonial theory The definition of ethnic literature “is literature like any other‚ except that it contains ethnic references.” (Reilly p.2). Another definition of ethnic literature is when there is a literature work that contain religious beliefs‚ racial issues‚ linguistics‚ or cultural heritage. In another word‚ ethnic literature is the literary work that includes particular culture‚ beliefs‚ or linguistics
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COLONIALISM‚ POST-COLONIALISM & POST-COLONIAL INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE ABSTRACT Colonialism is the building and maintaining of colonies in one territory by people from another territory. Colonialism normally refers to a period of history from the 15th to the 20th century when people from Europe established colonies on other continents. Collins English Dictionary defines colonialism as "the policy of acquiring and maintaining colonies‚ especially for exploitation." The Stanford Encyclopaedia
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Postcolonial Writing: ‘According to Achebe an important role for the writer in a new nation is to show a colonised people ‘’what they have lost’’. How might we read Things Fall Apart as doing this? The novel ‘Things Fall Apart’ is written by popular African writer Chinua Achebe. It was published in 1958‚ around the time Nigeria was approaching independence which it finally gained in 1960. The novel itself is based in Nigeria in a small village called Umuofia. The novel follows the life of the main
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English Literature Eng 102 Term Paper II Topic: Post-Colonial Indian English Drama India has the longest and the richest tradition in drama. During the age of the Vedic Aryans‚ drama was performed in a simple way. Different episodes from the Ramayana‚ the Mahabharata‚ and the Bhagavad-Gita were enacted out in front of people. When Britishers came in India‚ the
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INTRODUCTION By definition‚ post colonialism is a period of time after colonialism‚ and postcolonial literature is typically characterized by its opposition to the colonial. However‚ some critics have argued that any literature that expresses an opposition to colonialism‚ even if it is produced during a colonial period‚ may be defined as postcolonial‚ primarily due to its oppositional nature. Postcolonial literature often focuses on race relations and the effects of racism and usually indicts white and/or
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