Postcolonial feminism

concept of visualizing the postcolonial situation as a kind of binary opposition between authority and oppression, authorization and de-authorization. He states ahead that all modes of imposition including the demand on the colonized to be like the colonizer results in mimicry. According to him, the mode of asserting authority over the colonized gave rise to mimicry. He further asserts that mimicry can be taken as a way of eluding control that also gives rise to postcolonial…

The second interrelated principle of Postcolonial eco-poetics is the dialogic paradigm developed and introduced by Mikhail Bakhtin. The dialogic paradigm seeks to unmask and unsettle dominant discourses in colonial and anthropocentric discourses. Bakhtin’s affiliation and appropriation to both postcolonialism and eco-poetics has been recently acknowledged by scholars and critics. Bakhtin is cited to lend prestige and weight to the theoretical sphere of postcolonial eco-poetics as he “emphasises…

Dictionary a trope is “a figurative or a metaphorical use of a word of expression”. The use of cannibal trope is not left by chance in the case of diasporic narratives. Postcolonial writers aim at rewriting the History through the eyes of the oppressed people during the Colonized Era, they embody the Otherness, and write about it. Postcolonial literature as a literary movement emerged at the same time that many colonies were fighting their way to gain their independence. Cannibalism and…

Colonialism in The Native Problem In Robert Sheckley’s The Native Problem, Darko Suvin’s definition of cognition and estrangement can be used to explore contemporary ideologies about colonialism. Sheckley examines the effects of colonialism projected into a futuristic setting and aspects of colonialism are both changed and unchanged in different ways. In the story, colonialism is both successfully and unsuccessfully reimagined in ways that allow readers to reflect on contemporary ideas about…

Post-colonial literature deals with the effects of colonization on cultures and societies through literature. This term has been started using after the Second world War in terms such as the post-colonial state and has carried a chronological meaning, designating the post-independence period. However, from the late 1970s the term has been used by literary critics to discuss the various cultural effects of colonization. It was Gayatri Spivak who first used the term Post-colonial in the collection…

Post-colonialisms and Feminisms: The Impacts of Double Colonization on the Female identity in Season of Migration to the North by Altayyeb Saleh , Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe’s and The Inheritance by Sahar khalefa Introduction Does post -colonialism theory have multiple phases like feminism? Is there a fixed postcolonial female identity? What are the impacts of double colonization on the female identify in colonized societies? Post-colonialism is defined in anthropology as the…

Abstract The paper makes a postcolonial feminist reading of Jean Rhys’s novel, Wide Sargasso Sea which is a subversion of Charlotte Bronte’s celebrated novel,Jane Eyre.It tries to show how in the novel, Rhys lends voice to Antoinette Cosway, the most silenced character in Jane Eyre and how she foregrounds the importance of creolized gendered subject within the hierarchy of European patriarchy. The paper unravels the way in which the sense of unbelongingness and gendered discrimination…

colonization and dispossession from a gendered praxis. My paper seeks to address these issues as touched upon in her novel The Collector’s Wife by well known Assamese writer and columnist Mitra Phukan, by making a symptomatic reading of the text through a postcolonial feminist lens. The gendered realities existing amidst insurgency issues, student unrest, border crossing, trouble in the tea gardens is the main thrust of the novel that makes possible a probing of feminine experience in terms of…

and though the practice is a large part of Haitian culture, Westerners often view it as unorthodox and sexually abusive. Danticat depicts “testing” in her novel as a means of discussing postcolonial feminist issues which are often misunderstood and rarely even discussed in mainstream feminist literature. Similar to the internalized misogyny depicted in The Handmaid’s Tale, women in Breath, Eyes, Memory facilitate their own oppression by “testing” their daughters as they were once “tested” by…

If the ‘history from below’ of subaltern studies aims at this rereading ‘against the grain’ of the colonial (and postcolonial) history of India by highlighting the ‘daily forms of resistance’, it suggests above all a ‘redefinition’ of the archive itself: wherever the traditional archive is insufficient (particularly concerning women’s history), recourse to ‘different’ sources in which the ‘subaltern voice’ can be heard is necessary. It is through the alternative that feminist history is…