Postcolonialism分析.ppt

Postcolonialism 1. Colonialism and de-colonization 2. “Can the Subaltern Speak?”: Language Cultural Identities 3. National Identity Hybridity 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) From Form to Race Form—textual and linguistic: literary forms (e.g. organic form), linguistic forms (e.g. semiotic rectangle, différance) 2. From Text to Context: Social forms (e.g. discourse, hierarchy, etc.) Postmodern forms (e.g. metafiction, pastiche) Colonial Postcolonial forms (e.g. mental/power structure, lit: parody, historical re-vision) Starting Questions What are the examples of colonialism? Is KMT’s regime an example? What are the examples of colonial thinking (e.g. the racial/cultural prejudices and stereotypes) in “English” Literature? Is de-colonization possible? How do we or the colonized resist colonialism in life and through literature? Is it racist to call foreigns 鬼佬，番仔，老外？ Colonialism: Definition and Kinds Definition: colonialism --military, economic, cultural oppression domination of one country over another. Kinds: 1. Invasion-colonization; 2. Settlement-colonization; 3. Internal Colonialism; 4. Neo-Colonialism Modern Colonialism: Flows of not only Natural Resources but also People Capitalism ? Triangular Trade 2. Middle Passage Colonialism: flows of migration Flows of Migrants Triangular Trade This trade is a source of wealth to tribal chiefs, to the shipping business, to plantation owners in the South of U.S., and to merchants and shipbuilders in the North. ? For the African