Indian Postcolonial Literature

1. Indian postcolonial Theorist
• Name: Chauhan Hetal M.
• Paper No:11 postcolonial Literature
• Course:M.A,sem-3,2018
• Roll No:14
• Email :hetalchauhan137@gmail.com
• Submitted to: Smt.S.B.Gardi,Department
Of English,M.K.Bhavnagar University

2. What Is ‘Post-Colonialism’?
• Colonialism
Control or governing influence of a nation over a
dependent country, or people
• Post-colonialism
Is an intellectual direction that exists since around the
middle of the 20th century.
It developed from and mainly refers to the time after
colonialism.
The post-colonial direction was create as colonial
countries became independent.
Nowadays, aspect of post-colonialism can be found not
only in sciences concerning history, literature and
politics, but also in approach to culture and identity

3. Themes that link to Post-colonial
Theory
• Postcolonial Theory
- Identity
- Control
- Power
- Subjectivity
- Leadership
- Nations and nationality
- Race

4. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

5. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
• An Indian theorist, literary critic and lecture at Columbus
university
• She describes herself as a “practical Marxist-feminist
deconstructionist”
• Best Know for her contemporary culture and critical
theorist to challenge the “legacy of colonialism” and the
way readers engage with literature and culture. She
often focuses on the cultural text of those who are
marginalized by dominant western culture: the new
immigrant; the working class; women; and other
“Postcolonial subjects”.
• ‘Can the subaltern speak?
• Strategic essentialism

6. Homi K Bhabha

7. Homi K. Bhabha
• Born in 1949
• Harvard professor and one of the top post colonialist
thinkers
• He wrote “nation and narration” (1990) and “The
Location of Culture”
• Bhabha says: that white people ‘instead of seeing the
world as huge coat of many colors, they see it in terms of
good/bad opposites, putting themselves always at the
“good” end and everyone else who is different at the
“bad” end:
• East/west, Civilized/savage, first world/third World,
western liberalism/Islamic fundamentalism and on and
on.

8. Conti..
• He studied the works of French
poststructuralist thinkers like Derrida,
Lacan and Foucault. He is also a follower
of Edward said
• His key concepts: Hybridity, mimicry,
difference and ambivalence.

9. Dipesh Chakrabarty

10. Dipesh Chakrabarty
• Born in 1949
• Professor of history at the university of Chicago.
• Work: Provincializing Europe: post colonial thought and
historical difference
• It is about recognizing the limitation of western social
science in explaining the historical experiences of
political modernity in South Asia.
• The idea of Provincialising Europe represents
Chakrabarty’s attempt to pluralize the best history of
global political modernity.

11. Amar Acheraiou

12. Amar Acheraiou
• Debate on cross cultural encounters, the
interconnections of language, culture and race, the
formation of ideologies of power and supremacy,
relationship between classical Orientalism and the
modern construction of otherness.
• Discussion of modernist literature with a critique of
European post enlightenment philosophical concept.
• Major work : rethinking Postcolonialism : colonialist
discourse in modern literatures and the legacy of
classical writers.