Postcolonialism

This paper explores conscious and unconscious thought trends in O’Neill’s “The Emperor Jones” through an equivalence to a clash between two opposite cultural sensibilities. The Emperor being a black faces a conflict between dialectical strains of conscious and unconscious i.e. conscious is powerful whereas unconscious is suppressed and silenced. But the course of the dramatic action shows how the unconscious is foregrounded i.e. the powerless overtake the powerful in both psychological and…

Chapter Two Ethnographic Fictional representation of tribe and gender in select fiction of Pratibha Ray Pratibha Ray’s The Primal Land is the story of Bonda tribals who struggled to survive through the development induced displacement of their indigenous ‘country’. She reconstructs the socio-cultural myths, beliefs and rituals of the past and also the present transformations in the socio-cultural setup in the Bonda lands. BondaRay’s narrative provides us the social, political, and economic…

Globalization, collaboration, is necessary for sustaining the life of all species. Tsing says, “Precarity is a state of acknowledgment of our vulnerability to others” (29). Anti-globalization, indigeneity without contact, is impossible because Homo economicus is always scoping for a new frontier. If we don’t collaborate with each other - which is to say if we don’t contaminate our lives by intermingling with those humans and other species which we see as radically different from us – then we are…

The grounds on which the debate on sati was taken up was through the invention, preservation and gendering of Indian culture and tradition. British Colonial authority employed orientalist scholarship as a way to challenge sati from within Indian tradition and in turn become masters of that tradition . Thus, the protection of women and women’s agency became absent in the discourse as scripture was used as the defining feature of sati, furthering the project of preservation. Scripture was thus…

Throughout multiple centuries, colonialism occurred all over the world. Colonialism referred to a dominant country established its colonies in another nation. The dominant country had an absolute control over its colony countries. All the resources, the people or any other properties within the colony countries will also belong to the colonized nation. As a result, many colonies spoke their colonized country’s language and shared their culture. One example from the colonial period is Britain and…

Bunkered within an icy Helsinki restaurant, a hundred marketing experts embarked on the journey to pen a simple, yet iconic slogan. Their desire was to attract tourists across the globe. However, this was no easy task. There was a variety of ideas tossed around, from nudity to a holistic quote on nature. Yet in this search, these Finnish experts derived a brilliant slogan from out of nothing. In 2011, thousands of adventurers flocked to Finland because of the words it echoed: “Silence, please.”…

The postcolonialism period is usually defined to be “The social, political, cultural and economic practices that arose in response and resistance to colonialism” (Davis et al.1811). This term also refers to the historical period following the colonial era, which was the second half of the twentieth century. People strongly agreed that the second half of the twentieth century is considered to be the era of the postcolonialism because of the struggles colonized people faced. One text in particular…

lives in the twentieth century were Dutch Colonialism had control of the Javanese. The Europeans thought that they were superior above others and they would have more rights and power over the native people. The book Dangerous Liaisons: Gender, Nation, and Postcolonial Perspectives by Anne McClintock has good point when it mentions that “The colonial politics of exclusion, was contingent on constructing categories: legal and social classifications designation who was “white,” who was “native”,…

In The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini creates an awareness and humanization of Afghanistan as a nation and as a culture. Through a postcolonial perspective, the main character, Amir resembles the internal conflicts and external tribulations that a country and its citizens’ face when living in a war-torn region. Postcolonial criticism offers a unique perspective by highlighting the destructive events that lead to death and misery, rather than glorifying the exploratory nature of colonists as they…

1. Postcolonialism, Censorship and History of South Africa 1.1 Postcolonialism To determine the definition of “post-colonial” and “postcolonial”, as well as the hermeneutical difference between the terms, is not merely a question of orthography or terminology. It is largely depending on the historical period that is being looked at, the way one decides to explore it, and evidently what is being looked for. The hyphenated term “post-colonial” seems to imply an epoch or a distinct historical…