Postcolonialism--概述.ppt

Postcolonialism Lara 1. Definition of Postcolonialism Postcolonialism or?postcolonial studies?is an academic discipline featuring methods of intellectual?discourse?that analyze, explain, and respond to the cultural legacies of?colonialism?and?imperialism, to figure out the consequences of controlling a country and establishing colonies for the economic exploitation of the native people and their land. A. What is it about？ Drawing from?postmodern?schools of thought, postcolonial studies analyse the politics of knowledge by analyzing the functional relations of?social and political power?that sustain colonialism. As a genre of contemporary history, postcolonialism questions and reinvents the modes of perception of colonial local culture. As anthropology, postcolonialism records human relations among the colonial nations and the subaltern peoples exploited by colonial rule. 模板来自于 * 模板来自于 * 模板来自于 * 模板来自于 * 模板来自于 * 模板来自于 * 模板来自于 * 模板来自于 * Postcolonialism 后殖民主义 Contents : Definition of Postcolonialism 1 Essay Analysis 2 Application of Postcolonialism 3 QA 4 A B Destabilization of Western thought：deductive reasoning, rule of law?and?monotheism Balance binary power so that subaltern peoples can speak for themselves B. Why is Postcolonialism important？ C. Two latest leading persons you need to know about Postcolonialism : As a cultural critic, Said is best known for the 1978 book?Orientalism. In it, he analyses the cultural representations that are the basis of?Orientalism, a term he redefined to refer to?the Wests patronizing perceptions and depictions of Middle Eastern, Asian and North African societies—the East. He contended that Western Orientalist scholarship was, and remains, inevitably tied to the imperialist societies that produced it, which makes much of the work inherently political, servile to power, and thus intellectually suspect. Edward Wadie Said? (1935-2003) Harvard University Columbia University ABOUT Him 关于他 Homi K