Postcolonialism
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
“For any European during the nineteenth century – and I think one can say this almost without qualification – Orientalism was such a system of truths, truths in Nietzsche’s sense of the word. It is therefore correct that every European, in what he could say about the Orient, was consequently a racist, an imperialist, and almost totally ethnocentric. Some of the immediate sting will be taken out of these labels if we recall additionally that human societies, at least the more advanced cultures, have rarely offered the individual anything but imperialism, racism, and ethnocentrism for dealing with "other" cultures.” -- Edward W. Said, Orientalism pp. 203-4 |
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Postcolonialism (also post-colonial theory) is the critical academic study of the cultural, political and economic legacy of colonialism and imperialism, focusing on the impact of human control and exploitation of colonized people and their lands. The field started to emerge in the 1960s, as scholars from previously colonized countries began publishing on the lingering effects of colonialism, developing a critical theory analysis of the history, culture, literature, and discourse of (usually European) imperial power.
Literature of postcolonialism
- Foundation works
- Le Procès de la colonization française (French Colonization on Trial) (1924), by Nguyen Ai Quoc
- 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 Colonizer and the Colonized (1965), by Albert Memmi
- Consciencism (1970), by Kwame Nkrumah
- Orientalism (1978), by Edward Said
- Can the Subaltern Speak? (1988), by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
See also
- Civilizing mission
- Cultural cringe
- Cross-culturalism
- Ethnology
- Burn! (1969), directed by Gillo Pontecorvo
- An Image of Africa (1975), by Chinua Achebe
- Inversion in postcolonial theory
- Linguistic imperialism
- Nation-building
- Postcolonial literature
- Subaltern