This document provides information about a postcolonial criticism paper submitted by Sheikh Nusratjaha R. It includes their name, semester, roll number, email, subject, paper number, batch, and department submitted to. It then provides a brief overview of postcolonial criticism, including that it emerged in the 1990s and undermines universal claims by acknowledging regional, national, cultural, and social differences rather than privileging white Eurocentric norms. It discusses achieving a postcolonial perspective by reclaiming one's history and eroding colonial ideology. It references Edward Said's Orientalism and characteristics of postcolonial criticism such as representation of non-Europeans and concerns with language.

1. POSTCOLONIAL CRITISM
NAME :- SHEIKH NUSRATJAHA R.
SEM:- 2
ROLL NO. :- 26
ENROLLMENT NO. :- 2069108420180047
EMAIL ID :- nususheikh1@gmail.com
SUBJECT :- PAPER NO:- 7 LITERARY CRITISM
BATCH :- 2017-2019
SUBMITTED TO :- DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH , MAHARAJA
KRISHNAKUMARSINHJI , BHAVNAGAR.

2. Postcolonial
 Emerged in the 1990's
 Undermines universalist claims
 Universal claims disregard
difference
I. Regional
II. National
III. Cultural
IV. Social
White Eurocentric norms should
not be privileged

3. To Achieve Postcolonial
Perspective
 First step for the "colonized" is to reclaim their own past.
 i.e.. History did not begin with the Europeans.
 Second step is to erode colonialist ideology that devalued
their past

4. Orientalism ( continued)
 Filled with anonymous masses of people ( not individuals)
 Actions determined by instinct ( lust, terror , fury , etc. ) vs.
logic
 Their reaction are determined by racial consideration rather
individual circumstance.

5. Ground breaking work
 Edward Said's orientalism.
 East is seen as “other"; inferior to the west .
 East is portrayed as projection of negative aspects
cruelty, sensuality, decadence , laziness, etc.
 Yet east is also portrayed as exotic, mystical, seductive.

6. Characteristics of Postcolonial
Criticism
1. An awareness of representation of non-Europeans as exotic
or 'Other' .
2. Concern with language Some conclude the colonizers
language is permanently tainted, to write in it involves
acquiescence in colonial structures

7. Characteristics of Postcolonial
Criticism (cont.)
3. Emphasis on identity as doubled or unstable (identify with
colonizer and colonized)
4. Stress on cross cultural interactions

8. Stages of Postcolonial
Criticism
 Phase 1: Analyse white representation of colonial
countries...uncover bias .
 Phase 2: Postcolonial writers explore slaves and society
(The empire writes back)

9. What Postcolonial Critics Do
 Reject claims of universalism
 Examine representation of other cultures
 Show how literature is silent on matters of imperialism and
colonialism
 Foreground questions of diversity and cultural difference
 Celebrate 'cultural polyvinyl (belonging to more than one
culture)
 Assert that marginality, plurality and 'Otherness' are sources of
energy and potential change.