Postcolonialism

Postcolonialism is important for the entire world in that it represents the ongoing efforts of formerly colonized people to understand the global processes that led to imperialism and then brought...

I think that one can find the role of English to operate as both an act of oppression and an act of resistance in Postcolonial writing. For many Postcolonial writers, English was the "oppressor's...

In part, the genre of Alicia Elliot's "On Seeing and Being Seen: the Difference Between Writing with Empathy and Writing with Love" is a narrative essay. A narrative essay tells a personal story...

Postcolonialism (or postcolonial theory) can be a slippery beast. In its most literal sense, it can refer to books written after the colonial period. As European countries lost most of their...

Colonization is a physical act of people from one region invading and settling another region. The original inhabitants of the newly colonized land are the victims of colonization. This can take...

A postcolonial perspective in literature seeks to examine the way power is represented and utilized among those who attempt to colonize other cultures and among members of the colonized culture. A...

If we define "subaltern" as relating to and having to do with post- colonial studies, I think that we can find many examples. Some of the best work in all of literature might come from subabltern...

Post-colonialism is the study of the legacies of colonialism and imperialism, often explored in literature and the arts. The "main idea" of post-colonialism is to study the cultural shifts that...

Postcolonial theory is a genre of literary, social, and critical theory that explores the aftereffects of European colonialism on various non-European countries, although some scholars expand this...

Literature is a strategy for postcolonial survival because it gives postcolonial people a voice. "Postcolonial" refers to the point-of-view of the oppressed; it is the view from below. Being able...

Postcolonial literature, which includes literary criticism, is any literature that depicts or interprets colonialism and imperialism from the point of view of the colonized. It is also...

Postcolonialism is, as the word parts indicate, a period of time after the end of British or French colonialism in various parts of the world. As can be expected, it is characterized by opposition...

Because “diaspora” is a somewhat indefinite term, we might consider the role played by intellectuals who were born in one particular geographical milieu and then exported their experiences from...

Post-colonial criticism is an attempt to reveal the story of oppressed people from their own point of view by correcting or critiquing the perspective of the powerful. It is often called the view...

The term colonialism as used in literary studies on the most basic level means the same thing it does in standard English. It refers to one nation establishing colonies in a region outside its...

Barbara Ladd and Deborah N. Cohn apply postcolonial criticism to Faulkner by examining his "contradictory treatment of Native Americans" (Hamblin, Faulkner in the Twenty-First Century). A similar...

The discourse of postcolonial studies involves applying a postcolonial perspective to texts, ideas, and events in history. This postcolonial perspective is a reaction against (and, postcolonial...

One of the most evident post-colonial influences present in Kurieshi's work is the role of race and racism in the modern setting. Karim struggles with understanding how multiple forces converge...

There are many arguments against colonialism. Many people argue against it on an ethical basis, saying that it is not the right thing to do to impose one’s culture on another, especially not in the...

One of Boehmer's primary points is that the exchange of ideas that is intrinsic to Colonialism helped to develop the vocabulary and consciousness that led to its dismantling and the rise of...

The literature of the Post-colonialists encompasses any texts which focus upon races, cultures, and the idea of identity after the gaining of independence. This literature is not, necessarily,...

Postcolonial theory is of course a massive discipline and it is very difficult to summarise it all in one response, but generally speaking it either takes the form of examining books that have...

The United States in the course of its short history has gone from colony to colonizer. One could define acts of colonization moving into French and Spanish / Mexican controlled areas on the...

As with other literary and historical issues, terminology is often used in a flexible way. There is no hard and fast definition of when modernism ended and postmodernism began. Nor is there total...

For female writers as well as for males, primary themes of postcolonial literature are concerned with identity in newly independent nations, generally connected with issues of race, ethnicity,...

One of the main concerns of postcolonialism is the way in which the Western urban world is taken for the universal and anything other than that is exotic or strange. Joseph Conrad's "Heart of...

Part of where this answer lies is in the realm of Postcolonial thought. When trying to assess the challenges that have tended to exist in newly formed nations is how to construct reality after...

As long as it retains its explanatory power, i.e. as long as the legacies of colonialism persist, I think the term postcolonial will remain in use. I understand the backlash against it, but in...

The rejection of colonialism and its exploitation of the subjects of the Empire is certainly a feature of postcolonial fiction. However, critics from a New Historicist perspective often argue that...

I think that Modern Indian writings tend to subvert the dominance of a traditionally patriarchal society in making the case that gender oppression is no different colonial oppression. Part of the...

One significant way in which postcolonialism uses poststructuralism in understanding texts is within the issue of race and racial identity. For the postcolonialist, the concept of "race" is beyond...

At first glance, "Decolonization is not a metaphor" by Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang seems to have little in common with Alicia Elliot's "On Seeing and Being Seen." Tuck and Yang's "Decolonization" is...

A short story that lends itself to analysis from both perspectives would most likely be one that is set in an earlier time period, such as pre-independence– or early-independence–era Africa or...

The "Stars and Bars" was the first official flag of the Confederate States of America designed by Nicola Marschal (1829-1917) a Prussian who had immigrated to the States in the 1840's....

The question itself could probably use some level of refinement in its focus and in its scope because in its current state, it is quite broad. In general, I think that some of the most salient...

This is a really broad question as we should be equally careful to make "Postcolonial criticism" and "Indian novels" homogeneous entities. Postcolonialism is a diverse and pluralistic critical...

I can see how the accepted ideas of what defines Postcolonial literature can be included in a study of Multicultural American Literature. The struggle for voice and validation in Multicultural...