Ania Loomba's views about Colonialism/postcolonialism

1. Presentation Topic
Ania Loomba’s views about Colonialism/
Post colonialism
Name: Brijal Oza
Roll no.: 21
Paper no.: 11, The Post Colonial Literature
Year: 2015 – 2017
Email ID: brijaloza1994@gamil.com
Submitted to: Dept. of English
M.K. Bhav. Uni.

2. Introduction of Ania Loomba
• Ania Loomba is Catherine
Bryson professors in the
field of English at the
Pennsylvania.
• Her popular works:
1) Gender, race, renaissance,
drama
2) Dead Woman- Tell no Tales:
Issues of Female Subjectivity
3) Shakespeare, Race and
Colonialism (2002)
4) Post Colonial studies and
Beyond (2005)

3. Colonialism:
The control and
governing influence of a
nation over a dependent
country, territory, or people.
Post colonialism:
The post
colonialism is the study of a
culture after the physical or
political withdrawal of an
oppressive power.

4. Roots of Colonialism and Post Colonialism:
• No difference between colonialism and post
colonialism.
• It’s root were in the Columbus’s arrival for the
new found land and with the Vasco-De-Gama.
• “Colonialism and Post colonialism is a
comprehensive yet accessible guide to the
historical and theoretical dimensions of colonial
and postcolonial studies.”

5. Ania Loomba’s views on Colonialism/Post
Colonialism
• Her book – “Colonialism/Post Colonialism”,
discussed about ‘how colonialism relevant with the
person, place or anything.
• 3 chapters:
1. colonialism/post colonialism, imperialism, neo-
colonialism
2. Relates with identities about race, class, gender,
sexuality, hybridity
3. It is about challenging colonialism: feminism-
post colonialism, nationalism, can the subaltern
speak?

6. Colonialism/ Post Colonialism:
• It means first world country power over second, third
and fourth world country.
Imperialism:
• The OED (Oxford English Dictionary) defines – ‘imperial’
as ‘pertaining to empire’ and ‘imperialism’ as the ‘rule
of an emperor despotic or arbiter’.
Neo-colonialism:
• Known as “Neo-imperialism”.
• Highest stage of colonialism.
• Main aim- after world war-2, maintain control of their
formal colonies and economic arrangements.

7. Race:
• Product of western science in the 18th century
• In “Decent of Man”- Darwin wrote, “Extinction follows
chiefly from the competition of tribe with tribe, and
race with race.......... when civilized nations come into
contact with barbarians the straggle is short”- quoted
by Yonng (1995)
Class:
• Class and caste system creates difference in human
beings.
• For e.g.: Hanif Kureshi’s film- “My Beautiful Landrett”,
in this white working employer that as a non-white. He
should not evict his carribean tenant. The landlord
replies: “I am a professional businessman, not a
professional Pakistani”.

8. Sexuality:
• War period- some women become widows
• Their own survival- they had to become victims of
prostitution.
• Played a vital role in the process of colonialism.
Feminism and Post Colonialism:
• Also part of colonialism
• Ania Loomba quoted Chatterji’s one example
“if you have acquired real knowledge, than give too no place in
your heart to ‘memsahib’ like behavior. That is not becoming in
a Bengali house wife. See how an educated women can do
house work thoughtfully and systematically in a way unknown
to an ignorant, uneducated woman. and, see if God had not
appointed us to this place in the home, hoe a place this world
would be”.
– Chatterji (1989)