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Literary Theory & Cultural Studies

Post Colonialism

Introduction:

Post Colonialism developed on the foundation of Edward Said’s

Orientalism (1978).
It is an academic discipline featuring methods of intellectual discourse
that analyse, explain and respond to the cultural legacies of Colonialism
and Imperialism to the human consequences of controlling a country
and establishing settlers for the economic exploitation of the native
people and their land.
It is the literature of the decolonized countries engaged in contemporary
post-colonial arrangements with their former mother countries.
Drawing from Postmodern school of thought, post-colonial studies
analyse the politics of knowledge (creation, control and distribution) by
analysing the functional relations of social and political power that
sustains Colonialism and Post Colonialism the how and why of an
imperial regime's representations (social, political and cultural) of the
imperial colonizer and of the colonised people.

Post-colonial literary criticism

As a literary theory, it deals with the literatures produced by the people
who once were colonies of the European Imperial Powers (e.g.: Britain,
France, Spain, etc.).
Post-colonial literary criticism comprehends the literatures written by
the coloniser and the colonized.
The subject matter includes portraits of the colonised people and their
lives as imperial subjects.
Important Works of Post-Colonialism:
 Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
 I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud by Wordsworth
 Girl by Jamaica Kincaid
 Oh, the Places You'll Go (by Dr Seuss)
 The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
 The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial
Literature by Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin
 Discourse on Colonialism (1950, by Aimé Césaire)
 Black Skin White Masks (1952, by Frantz Fanon)
 The Wretched of the Earth (1961, by Frantz Fanon)
 The Coloniser and the Colonised (1985, by Albert Miami)
 Orientalism (1978, by Edward Said)
 An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness by Chinua
Achebe.

Targeted MCQs according to the level

Note: After reading the above explanation solve these MCQs

Mix Levels:

Q. 1. Which among the following is NOT a Post-colonial work?

(a) Heart of Darkness
(b) The Wretched of the Earth
(c) Discourse on Colonialism
(d) Zero Degree
Q. 2. Orientalism is a famous work of?
(a) Colonialism
(b) Post colonialism
(c) Structuralism
(d) Deconstruction

Q. 3. Post-colonialism is not
(a) Post Colonialism developed on the foundation of Edward Said’s
Orientalism.
(b) Post-colonial literary criticism comprehends the literatures written by
the coloniser and the colonized.
(c) It is the literature of the decolonized countries engaged in contemporary
post-colonial arrangements with their former mother countries.
(d) Black Skin White Masks written by Althusser is a fine example of post-
colonial literature.
Answers with Explanation:

Q. 1. Which among the following is NOT a Post-colonial work?

(a) Heart of Darkness
(b) The Wretched of the Earth
(c) Discourse on Colonialism
(d) Zero Degree
Answer: (d)
Explanation:

Important Works of Post-Colonialism:

 Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
 I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud by Wordsworth
 Girl by Jamaica Kincaid
 Oh, the Places You'll Go (by Dr Seuss)
 The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
 The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial
Literature by Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin
 Discourse on Colonialism (1950, by Aimé Césaire)
 Black Skin White Masks (1952, by Frantz Fanon)
 The Wretched of the Earth (1961, by Frantz Fanon)
 The Coloniser and the Colonised (1985, by Albert Miami)
 Orientalism (1978, by Edward Said)
 An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness by Chinua
Achebe.

Q. 2. Orientalism is a famous work of?

(a) Colonialism
(b) Post colonialism
(c) Structuralism
(d) Deconstruction
Answer: (d)
Explanation:
Refer question no 1 answer

Q. 3. Post-colonialism is not
(a) Post Colonialism developed on the foundation of Edward Said’s
Orientalism.
(b) Post-colonial literary criticism comprehends the literatures written by
the coloniser and the colonized.
(c) It is the literature of the decolonized countries engaged in contemporary
post-colonial arrangements with their former mother countries.
(d) Black Skin White Masks written by Althusser is a fine example of post-
colonial literature.
Answer: (d)
Explanation:
Post Colonialism
Introduction:
Post Colonialism developed on the foundation of Edward Said’s
Orientalism (1978).
It is an academic discipline featuring methods of intellectual discourse
that analyse, explain and respond to the cultural legacies of Colonialism
and Imperialism to the human consequences of controlling a country
and establishing settlers for the economic exploitation of the native
people and their land.
It is the literature of the decolonized countries engaged in contemporary
post-colonial arrangements with their former mother countries.
Drawing from Postmodern school of thought, post-colonial studies
analyse the politics of knowledge (creation, control and distribution) by
analysing the functional relations of social and political power that
sustains Colonialism and Post Colonialism the how and why of an
imperial regime's representations (social, political and cultural) of the
imperial colonizer and of the colonised people.
Post-colonial literary criticism
As a literary theory, it deals with the literatures produced by the people
who once were colonies of the European Imperial Powers (e.g.: Britain,
France, Spain, etc.).
Post-colonial literary criticism comprehends the literatures written by
the coloniser and the colonized.
The subject matter includes portraits of the colonised people and their
lives as imperial subjects.