paper 11 The postcolonial Literature

Topic: Background reading Unite: 5.

Name: Solanki Binita M.

Roll No: 04.

Paper: 11.

Subject: Post-Colonial Literature.

Submitted to: Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji,

                         Bhavnagar University.

                         (Department of English).

Introduction: 

                         Colonialism was presented as the extension of civilization. And this term colony creates two different terms like that Colonizers and Colonized. There is no much difference between colonialism and postcolonialism. There are both of sit together.  The process of forming a community in the new land necessarily meant informing or re-forming the communities. These practice and writings are what contemporary studies of colonialism and postcolonialism try to make sense of.

                         We can say that colonialism was the midwife that assisted at the birth of Europe capitalism. Different between pre-capitalism and capitalism is often made by referring to the latter as imperialism.

                         Imperialism means like colonialism stretches back to a pre-capitalism past. If imperialism is defined as a political system in which an imperial center colonized countries, then the granting of political independence signals the end of empire, the collapse of imperialism. Imperialism can function without formal colonies but colonialism cannot. These different understanding of colonialism and imperialism complicate the meaning of the term ‘postcolonial’ a term that is the subject of an ongoing debate.

Meaning of Postcolonialism:  

                         Postcolonial theory is a generalized term used to describe the variety of events that took place in the aftermath of decolonized thought various nations.

                         Postcolonialism as a study addresses issues of power, subordination, race, gender inequality, and class warfare; but and linger far after the imperial powers exited the colonies. Postcolonialism includes a vast array of writers and subjects.

                         Some woman colonial writers draws a relationship between postcolonialism and feminism. For many of these writers, who live in strong cultural, language and the ability to write and communicate represent power.

Ania Loomba’s views about colonialism and postcolonialism:  

                         Colonialism is the physical occupation of territory and post-colonialism deals with the effects of colonialism on cultural and societies. In her book colonialism and postcolonialism, she mainly discussed about how colonialism relevant with the person, place or anything.

Globalization and the future of postcolonial studies: 

                         Globalization: 

                                        “The worldwide movement toward economic, financial trade, and communications integration.”

                         Somewhere in the globalization also near to the colonialism/postcolonialism. While another is globalization and social-networking through people come together and knew each other. There is no doubt that globalization has made information and technology more widely available, and has brought economic prosperity to certain new section of the world.   

Introduction about Key concept: 

                         Key concepts in post-colonial studies attempts to explain the most important term and concepts in English in post-colonial theory by providing an insight into their and by offering an count of the range of meaning with which they have been deployed.

Ø Appropriation:  

                A term used to describe the ways in which post-colonial societies take over those aspects of the imperial culture-language, form of writing film, theatre, even modes of thought and argument such as rationalism, logic and analysis-that may be of use to them in articulating their own social and cultural identities. In these areas, the dominant language and its discursive forms are appropriated to express widely differing cultural experience, and to interpolate these experiences into the dominant modes of representation to reach the widest possible audience.

Discourse:

                        This is a much used word in contemporary theory and in post-colonial criticism is mostly employed in such term as colonial discourse, which is specifically derived from Foucault’s use of the concept.

                        Discourse was originally used from about the sixteenth century to describe any kind of speaking, talk or conversation, but became increasingly used to describe a more formal speech, a narration or a treatment of any subject at length, a treatise, dissertation or sermon.

                        A good example of a discourse is medicine.

Foucault’s view of the role of discourse though is even wider and more pervasive, since he argues the discourse is the crucial feature of modernity itself.

Globalization:      

                        Globalization is the process whereby individual lives and local communities are affected by economic and cultural forces that operate world-wide. The term has had a meteoric rise since the mid-1980s, up until which time words such as international and international relations’ were preferred.

                        The structural aspects of globalization are the nation-state system itself, global economy, the global communication system and world military order.