Postcolonialism

Postcolonialism and Feminism Abstract Colonialism/Postcolonialism is a remarkably comprehensive yet accessible guide to the historical and theoretical dimensions of colonial and postcolonial studies. National fantasies, be they colonial, anti-colonial or postcolonial also play upon the connection between woman, land or nation. Feminist theory and postcolonial theory are occupied with similar questions of representation, voice, marginalization, and the relation between

Postcolonialism is an academic discipline featuring methods of intellectual discourse that analyze, explain, and respond to the cultural legacies of colonialism and imperialism, to the human consequences of controlling a country and establishing settlers for the economic exploitation of the native people and their land. According to Edward said, Said's book Orientalism (1978) is considered the foundational work on which post-colonial theory developed. Said, then, could be considered the 'father'

Postcolonialism foregrounds the issue of racial and cultural difference. The understanding of the term “postcolonialism” should not be limited to the period of time after colonialism, despite the fact that most postcolonial theories have emerged after the end of colonization. It grounds on the assumption that colonial writings are racialized. The work that marked the beginning of postcolonial studies is Edward Said's Orientalism, which identifies the West's ideological perception of the East as the

2.1 Introduction This chapter gives the meaning of postcolonialism and post-colonialism. It introduces the partition of India in order to make a clear understanding about the subcontinent as independent state and how their leaders struggled to get freedom and independence as post-colonial India. It also displays the main changes and strategies adopted by the Indian constitution in the economic field to challenge the agricultural difficulties. Moreover, it sheds light on the Indian culture since

monotheistic claims were read in in a postcolonial optic. As an exilic prophet, claims of Second Isaiah were mainly from the colonial period and he was a victim of colonization. Postcolonialism and its theoretical frames were discussed in this chapter. 1.1. Postcolonialism: Terminology and theories 1.1.1. Terminology Postcolonialism is an investigative disciplinary in literal and cultural studies. The term postcolonial suggests an optimistic stand point relative to the project of political, military,

government and the maintenance of an economy. In addition to that, the individual identity of the colonized people is a complex issue that they must cope with as well, and it is an issue that is still present today. Compared to the other issues of postcolonialism, the construction of one’s identity might appear trivial; however, there are many problems of postcolonial identity, including the obligation of one to perceive themselves as people do from the outside through stereotypes, and the difficulty of

Introduction: Some topics that pertain to postcolonialism can oftentimes be somewhat difficult to grasp because of complexity that is required to describe them. Rudyard Kipling makes understanding a topic a whole lot easier because of his ability to write short stories and connect them to any postcolonial topics that he so chooses. For example, his short stories “Haunted Subalterns” and “The Mark of the Beast” have allowed me to better get a hold on the idea of the postcolonial topic of the subaltern

Introduction In the 1990s, when other fields failed to predict some major events of the twentieth century, including the struggle to decolonise, post-colonialism entered the field of International Relations. Postcolonialism can be surmised as the theory of International Relations which uses the effect of colonialism to describe the conditions of countries today, with a focus on personal information from its peoples. 'Post-colonial' refers to the analysis of colonialism and anti-colonialism. 'Postcolonial'

Postcolonialism focuses on the marginalisation and oppression of women in colonial contexts. As McLeod puts it “feminism and postcolonialism share the mutual goal of challenging forms of oppression”(McLeod 174). The postcolonial feminist perspective makes it possible to illuminate how and to what extent Celie is ‘doubly

Postcolonial criticism analyzes literature created by cultures that developed in response to colonial domination. This type of criticism defines formerly colonized people as any population that has been subjected to the political domination of another population. Readers analyzing literature in a postcolonial critical way will seek the political, social, cultural, and psychological understanding of the colonialist and anticolonialist. Authors, like Ralph Ellison, address the problem of cultural identity