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Debates
1. A group of critics argue that the postcolonial term should be reserved
for the Third and Fourth World writers, that to the white colonies
Britain was much more like a mother country than anything else.
The common grounds like race, language and culture. But another
group want to include them because any anticolonial resistance
force/response is important for postcolonial criticism.
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10.
There are two kinds of imposition- one that is forced and the
other that happens obliquely for the circulation of certain ideologies.
Circulation and exposure. The later is called hegemony (or Power
by Foucault) which Said picks up for his arguments.
11.
Through the representation of the Orient the West shows its
own modern intellectual position. Their judgement defines their own
intellectual traits.
12.
The slave does all the works and helps the master to progress.
Therefore the position of the master is actually determined by the
efforts of the slave, which is another way of saying- the slave
controls the master.
13.
To summarize point 11 and 12 in Saids voice- We know
ourselves negatively as the not other. A structuralist idea of binary.
14.
Bhabha
criticises
this
binarism
(even
Hegelian
binarism/dialectic). His key idea ambivalence (mixed feelings or
emotions). The general colonising force attitude and the attitude
harvested by knowledge (which turns into hatred) about the land
colonized.
15.
Submission and acquiescence (sly civility). Hybridity.
Works cited
Barry, Peter. Beginning Theory: an Introduction to Literary and Cultural
Theory. Viva Books. Third Edition, India, 2011.
Fry, Paul. Yale Lecture- Post-Colonial Criticism.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UarXGSuyyrw
Tyson, Lois. Critical Theory Today: a User-Friendly Guide.
Routledge. Second Edition, United States, 2006.