Key terms of Post-Colonial

Studies
 Name – Megha B Trivedi
 Course – M.A. English
 Sem – 3
 Batch – 2016-2018
 Enrolment No – 2069108420170030
 Submitted to – Smt. S.B.Gardi
Department of English, MK Bhavnagar
University
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 Paper No – 11 The Postcolonial
Literature
What is Post-colonialism ?
 Post colonial in literature
includes the study of theory
and literature as its relates
to the colonizer – colonized
experience.
 Post-colonial literature is a
study of the effect of
colonialism on cultures and
societies.
 It represents that how first
world countries ( European)
ruled and controlled “Third
World” cultures and how
these groups have since
responded to and resisted
those encroachments.
What is terms? And it’s
important.
 Literary terms means
those words used in
discussion,
classification, criticism,
and it’s helps to
analysis of any poetry,
novels, play or any
other literary works.
 For critical view
 Deep analysis
 To brake the particular
ideas
Mulatto
 It is English term, derived
from the Spanish and
Portuguese word ‘Yonge
mule’
 Mixed race person
 A term used to refer to
person born of one white
parent and one black
parent.
 For Ex – 1) Character of
Ariel – from “A Tempest”
by Amie Cesaire.
2) Character of
Vijaylaxmi – from movie
Hegemony
 The power of the ruling
class to convince other
classes that their interest
of all.
 Domination is not by
force but power over
economy.
 Term shows success of
imperial power over
colonized people
 Political control
 Control of education and
media
 Diaspora
 Migration from their native
Homeland
 Felling nostalgic
 Diaspora literature is often
concerned with questions
of maintaining or altering
identity, language and
culture while in another migration
culture or country.
 For ex- 1) Salman
Rushdie
voluntary forcefully
2) Jhumpa Lahiri
Nationalism and Pan-
Nationalism
 The idea of nation itself
paradox

 ‘Nation’ itself just

imagination and idea of
nation became
‘imperialism’

 The idea of ‘Mother’ land

derived with the idea of
‘Other’ also

 For ex – movie The

 Globalization
 Mid 1980 term has had
meteoric rise
 Process of world becoming a
single place
 It reflects an organizations of
world wide social relation
 Positive - ‘Globalization’ and
social-
networking through people
come together and know
each - others likes ,dislikes ,
language, foods, thoughts,
clothes, cultures and many
,more things
 Critical – material insecurity,
increased poverty,
marginalized subverted
groups, ecological
Mimicry
 Colonized adapt the
culture of the
colonizers

 It shows ambivalence
of Hybridity

 For ex - language
clothing
education