This document is a cultural studies paper submitted to the Department of English at M K Bhavnagar University. It discusses postcolonial studies and examines how Europeans constructed representations of Oriental cultures to justify colonial domination and assert Western superiority. It outlines Edward Said's work analyzing how the Orient was viewed through a European lens, including binary oppositions that positioned the West as rational and the Orient as irrational. Said examined how colonialist literature promoted themes that supported colonial expansion. The document also lists some of the prominent figures in postcolonial literature and theory, including Edward Said, Salman Rushdie, Jamaica Kincaid, and Homi Bhabha.

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