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1. SETTING: place, time and milieu of the story
2. THEME: insights that can be deduced from the story
3. SYMBOLISM: people, events or objects that represent
personal or universal meanings as contextualized in the
story
4. POINT OF VIEW (POV): perspective from which a
literary work is told
5. LIMINALITY: the feeling of being neither here nor
there; also known as the space in between
6. CREATIVE NONFICTION: also known as literary or
narrative fiction; uses a personal identifiable voice. This
genre includes memoirs, biography, literary journalism,
political commentary, social and cultural criticism and
essays. It emphasizes the use of inventive and dramatic
techniques about the actual world.
7. POSTCOLONIALISM: a critical theory in which the
“writers” write back against their former colonial masters;
theory is built around concepts of otherness and resistance.
8. HYBRIDITY: integration of cultural signs and practices
from the colonizing and the colonized cultures; also called
syncretism.
9. OTHERING: involves two concepts: (1) exotic other –
fascination with the inherent beauty and dignity of the
undeveloped other; (2) demonic other – represented as
inferior, negative, savage and evil.
10. DIASPORA: dispersion or people from their original
homeland; displacement of people
11. DOUBLE CONSCIOUSNESS: formulated by W. E. B.
Dubois, echoes Frantz Fanon’s contention of the divided self
in “Black Skin, White Masks” that the Black always sees
himself through the eyes of the White.

12. MIMICRY: ambivalent relationship between the

colonizer and the colonized in which the colonized mimics
the colonizer by adopting the latter’s cultural habits,
language, etc.
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