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Meaning of canonial counter-discourse?

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  • destabilizes the power and knowledge of imperialism

It is a method to refuse classical past and postcolonial present the empire is trying to preserve
Rewriting classics

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Writing Back paradigm

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Three acts of liberation:
Canonial counter discourse
Oppositional use of language

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Oppositional use of language

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Appropriation

Ability to de- / reconstruct in line with postcolonial experience

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Heterogeneity

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Diverse in character and content

No single focus possible

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Postcolonialism

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All cultures affected by imperial process from point of colonization until the present day

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Creole languages

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Mixture of different languages

Used in communities

Acquired by children as native language

A stable language

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Creole continuum

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Speakers of creolen and standard english choose between registers that best fit the meaning or situation they are trying to convey

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Pidgens

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Contact languages without native speakers

Exist in addition to mother tongues

Limited in communitive range

Used for buisness/ trade reasons

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Otherness

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Social or psychological ways in which one group exclused or marginalizes another group

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Ambivalence

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Ambigous way in which colonizer and colonized regard themselves

Mixed sense of blessing or curse

Mix of inferior and enviable

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Heterodiegenic narration

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Narrator who is not a character in the story but hovers above it and knows everything about it

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Double colonisation of women

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Colonised twice through oppression of colonialism and through patriarchy

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Colonial writing

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Defined as literature written during time of colonization

Usually from point of view of colonizers

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National writing

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Sense of national identity to resist impact of colonialism

People past geographical borders share a identity

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Hybridity

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Cross between two races or cultures

Existing social processes mix to create new

Positive/resistive form of cultural translation

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Colonial

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Political condition of dependency

Control of cultural reproduction

Reflects norms and forms of the controlling culture

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Mimicry

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Ambivalent relationship between colonizer and colonized

Colonized produces blurred copy of colonizer

Habits, values etc.

Never far from mockery

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Cartography

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Process of cartography reinforces colonization

Naming/ renaming act of control and superiosity

Terra nullis

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Abrogation

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Denial of the priviledge of English

Refusal of the imperial culture

Regusal of its aestethic/ correct usage of language

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Appropriation

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The process of remoulding a language

Language is used as a tool to express differing cultural experiences

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Result of imperial control through language

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Alienation in linguistic and social fields

Gap between land and language

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Settler colonialism

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Replacement of indigenous

With settler economics, society, language and politics

Designed to secure local markets and merchandise

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Diaspora

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Voluntary of forced movement of people from their homeland to a new region

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Revisionist historiography

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Reviewing revising history and view of colonial history provided by the imperial centre

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Anglophone Literatures
literatures in English
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Man Booker Prize
prestigious British literary Prize - represents the internationalization of English writing - includes all former British colonies
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Commonwealth of Nations
founded 1931, lose grouping, 53 nations
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characteristics of Colonialism
Occupation conducted trade exploitation of human and natural ressources missionaries (Christian religion)
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'work force'
Europeans needed workforce to do labour, and basically imported slaves mainly from Africa to do labor
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Brief history of British Empire
1. journey of exploration: England leading sea power 2. founding of British Colonies Americe (East India Company, Hudson Bay company); slave trade 3. loss of American colony, settlement in Australia 4. 19th Century: height of Empire, Queen Victoria Empress of India 5. long process of decolonisation, withdrawal after WW2 6. Postwar immigration to Britain, ethincally diverse population
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Nationalist movements and literature/Culture
nations are imagines countries--- Benedict Anderson independent, free nation is the goal nation has to be rehearsed and reinvented (symbolism like anthems and flags)
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Postcolonial Studies, three main points
1. rereading and relearning the colonial/ imperialist period of Britain 2. overcoming former hierachies 3. it is a interdisciplinary subject deal with legacies of culture and economics
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Commonwealth Literature
British literature not included (invisible centre) generally rejected term India/ Africa never been part of the Commonwealth of Nations its a political term
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New English Literatures and Cultures
good: plural, points out the diversity bad: 'new', counts out the postcolonial literature during colonisation
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Anglophone Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures
postcolonial has established as the proper term, means 'after' independence
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What do the Postcolonial Literatures have in common?
they have special and distinctive regional characteristics BUT that in their present form they all emerged from the experience of colonization enphazise their differences from the assumptions the imperial centre has
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Areas of Study of POCO
1. Anglophone literatures and cultures in former British Colonies (convict narratives, apartheid nation 2. British literature and culture reflecting Britains postcolonial position 3. Empire writing and culture (travel reports) 4. Ethnic minority literatures and cultures in Britain
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terra nullis
nobodys land
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Robinson Crusoe
writes journal, talks to his parrot tries to produce sameness, wants to project englishness on the person, but fails (concept of mimicry) failed to produce sameness, created ambivalence
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Anglo- english Literature
written by MRI's= non- resident Indians | diaspora
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magic realism
fusion of realistic and fantastical elements
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Indo- English Literature
written by Indian residents
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Danger of a single Story
stories can empower/dispower show only one thing over and over again emphazise otherness/ create stereotypes
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historiographic metafiction
metafiction: reminds the reader through structure abd literary devices that it is fiction historical fiction: plot takes place in the past constant self-reflexitiy and concern with history certain known details about past deli. falsified to emphaz. error of rec. history rediscovers histories of surpressed people
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chutnification of history
metaphor for historiography and memory

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