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Postcolonialism

Globalization. Nation & Nationalism. Race and Gender. Commonwealth Lit. & World Lit. in English. Immigrants & Cultural Identity. Postcolonialism. 1. Colonialism and de-colonization 2. “Can the Subaltern Speak?”: Colonial Education & the Cultural Identities

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Postcolonialism

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  1. Globalization Nation & Nationalism Race and Gender Commonwealth Lit. & World Lit. in English Immigrants & Cultural Identity Postcolonialism 1.Colonialism and de-colonization 2. “Can the Subaltern Speak?”: Colonial Education & the Cultural Identities 3. National Identity & Hybridity

  2. Colonialism and de-colonization 1. From Form to Race, Starting Questions 2. Colonialism defined; physical and economic exploitation 3. Cultural Imperialism: 1) definition; 2) Colonial Discourse—e.g. Orientalism; 3) science 4. Cultural Imperialism: cultural & literary Examples 5. Colonial Mentality (& the relations between the colonized and colonizer) 6. Effects of cultural imperialism; 7. De-colonization (& post-colonial resistance)

  3. Colonizer vs. colonized De-colonization starts even during the period of colonization, and it is not accomplished yet now. e.g. Homi Bhabha’s theory of mimicry: (textbook p. 209-210) Two ways to challenge colonial identity: Différance/Dissemination of colonial culture and its mimicry Hybridity –deny the fixed and central identity of the colonizer or nation.

  4. C center Post-Structuralist + Post-Colonial: Mimicry Différance =Dissemination Colonial Mimicry: All the same but not quite– e.g. Indian gentleman or Indian celebration of U.K.’s national day. Taiwanese Imitations: bell-bottom, rock and roll

  5. De-Colonization: history • 1945 -- 750 million people - a third of the world's population - lived in Territories that were non-self-governing, dependent on colonial Powers. • British decolonization, 1945–56 (e.g. India); Wars in overseas France, 1945–56 (e.g. Vietnam) • The Sinai-Suez campaign (October–November 1956) , which affected the two colonial powers, France and Britain a lot. • a federal Malaysian government (1957); Hong Kong (1997). Algeria and French decolonization, from 1956; 1981, Antigua •  colonization is not over; internal fractures; •  “The Empire Strikes back.”

  6. Post-Colonial Resistance Positions: the subaltern, postcolonial intellectuals (exiles or at home), rejecting the past etc. Means: Language, History and (personal, cultural, national )Identity Strategies: Between Nativism & Assimilation.

  7. Post-Colonial Resistance (2) Examples: Separatism vs. Cultural Syncreticism: Chinua Achebe vs. Ngugi wa Thiong'o (Writing in Gikuyu) clip 1 Re-Creation ;鄉土文學、台灣新電影（冬冬的假期﹚ reinterprete the signs  parody Mimicry: e.g. 戲夢人生clip 5， Buddha Bless America, clips 21, 23 Appropriation;

  8. Reference • Loomba, Ania. Colonialism/Postcolonialism. NY: Routeledge, 1998.

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