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    The novel Disgrace is located in a time and place of great change. What aspects of postcolonial thinking does Coetzee employ in his exploration of/or comment on post-apartheid South Africa? Post colonialism is a political discourse that dominates the reading of ‘Disgrace’ by South African author‚ JM Coetzee. Coetzee comments on the repercussions of the shifting values and ideals following the imperialist attitudes of the European colonizers on the issue of apartheid. Disgrace gives voice to the

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    Post-Colonialism Colonialism versus imperialism Difference between imperialism and colonialism Though both the words underline suppression of the other‚ Colonialism is where one nation assumes control over the other and Imperialism refers to political or economic control‚ either formally or informally. In simple words‚ colonialism can be thought to be a practice and imperialism as the idea driving the practice. Colonialism is a term where a country conquers and rules over other regions. It

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    Post colonialism should be referred to as the legacies of colonialism and not the end of colonialism. British interests in Indian languages arose from the necessity to cultivate the medium of intercourse between the government and its subjects. Lord Macaulay minute on Education 1835 very clearly signifies his agenda that is the Dissemination of the English language and English culture. The Englishmen wanted a class of persons who can act as interpreters between them and their subjects. People

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    Post-Colonialism: Definition‚ Development and Examples from India 1. Post-colonialism in general 1.1 Definition Post-colonialism is an intellectual direction (sometimes also called an “era” or the “post-colonial theory”) that exists since around the middle of the 20th century. It developed from and mainly refers to the time after colonialism. The post-colonial direction was created as colonial countries became independent. Nowadays‚ aspects of post-colonialism can be found not only in sciences

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    Using your knowledge of post-colonialist theory‚ comment on how Achebe presents the colonised and colonisers in ‘Things Fall Apart’ Post-colonialism deals with the cultural identity in colonised societies and the dilemmas of developing a national identity after colonial rule. Achebe achieves this through questioning post-colonialist theories of identity‚ binary oppositions‚ hybridisation‚ the balance of power and the theory of the ‘Otherness’. Through emphasising the typical stereotypes‚ Achebe

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    India and other formerly colonized countries such as Nigeria‚ Jamaica‚ Pakistan‚ and Singapore has distinctive features‚ postcolonial literature shares some significant concerns and characteristics. Concerns 1) Reclaiming spaces and places Colonialism was‚ above all‚ a means of claiming and exploiting foreign lands‚ resources‚ and people. Enslavement‚ indentured labor‚ and migration forced many indigenous populations to move from the places that they considered “home”. Postcolonial literature

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    LTWR 410 ---August 29‚ 2012 Economically -People relied on trade/barter/the importance of Mecca in bringing people together and disseminating news -Nomadic culture -Slavery -Unbalanced distribution of wealth The Guided Caliphs -The early caliphs survive in Islamic history as guided advocating social justice‚ and treating everybody equally -Early expansion -This brought Arab Muslims in contact with different ethnic groups and peoples including the Berbers of North Africa -Islamic Spain/The

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    In this chapter‚ four key concepts in the realm of Post colonialism will be elaborated‚ namely: Identity‚ Otherness‚ Racism‚ and finally‚ Hybridity. However‚ before that a brief introduction to the emergence of postists like modernism‚ postmodernism and finally postcolonialism will be presented to analyze the application of these concepts in the two mentioned plays. The Rise of the Postists “What I detested above all was Hegelianism and the dialectic.” (Deleuze 110) What is quoted from

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    power is redistributed among entities‚ the label given to this process is “post-colonialism.” Although there are a variety of definitions‚ Innes writes‚ “For historians‚ the hyphenated word refers specifically to the period after a country‚ state or people cease to be governed by a colonial power such as Britain or France‚ and take administrative power into their own hands” (Innes 1). It is during this time that the post-colonial theory observes many issues such as culture‚ power‚ economics‚ politics

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    Post colonialism and Orientalism Post = After Colonialism = the process of one country inhabiting another usually instilling their norms and values into that society Media Edward said – American-Palestinian Western media representations often contain a legacy of colonialism Colonial ideology - Superiority - Racial prejudice - Civilized Edward Said On Orientalism: ‘Orientalism has some perspectives of Marxism‚ because Marxism argues that we have a small minority of power

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