post-colonial study

1. Name – Devluk Drashti M
Paper – Cultural Study
Topic – Post Colonial study
Roll no – 9
Year 2015 -2016
Submitted – Department of
English
M K Bhavnagar University

2. Postcolonial
Studies

3. Counter-narrative in which the
colonial cultures fight their way
back into a world history
written by Europeans.

4. Eurocentric discourse that assumed
the normality and preeminence of
everything "occidental,"
correlatively with its
representations of the "oriental" as
an exotic and inferior other.

5. construct superiority of the
West
justify the dispossession of
natives
represent the degradation of
other human beings as natural

6. Other people
 Barbadians
 Non culture
 Useless, lazy,
avoiding, to do work
through pretence.
 In need of
civilization.
 Heard and careful
workers
 Sensible and
rational,
 Careful bulilders
 iellectuale
White people

7. White
people
Other
people

8. Binary oppositions
The West: dynamic, rational,
peaceful, liberal, logical, capable of
holding real values - “male”
The Orient: static, irrational, warlike,
passion-ridden, “immoral” – “female

9. Edward Said (1935-2003)
 Orientalism (1978)
 Culture and Imperialism (1993)
 Politics of Dispossession (1994)
Examines the ways through which the ‘Orient’ was, and
continues to be constructed through the lens of
Europeans, in part defining Orientalism as a Western
style for dominating, restructuring, and having authority
over the Orient

10.  Colonialist literatura: concerned with
colonial expansion, written by and for
colonizing Europeans about non-
European lands dominated by themes

11.  Some of the best known names in post colonial
literature and theory.
 Edward Said
 Salman Rushdie
 Jamaica kincaid
 Homi Bhabha