Article on Colonial Literature

Colonial Literature

                                Postcolonialism is a postmodern discourse which is composed of responses to, and evaluation of the cultural legacy of imperialism and colonialism. Postcolonialism is defined since the connections between areas and countries they ruled and formerly colonized. Postcolonialism includes a set of concepts found among Marxist theory, structure, human geography, sociology, history, anthropology, philosophy, linguistics, film, political science, feminism, theological and spiritual studies, and literature. Goals - The objective of post colonialism is bookkeeping for fighting colonialism's effects on civilizations. This is especially true of these voices which have been silenced by ideologies that are dominant - subalterns. Ed Said, in his book Orientalism, gives a clear image of how dismissed the views - preferring instead to depend on the excellence of their peers and themselves.

                           Imperialism forged this attitude. To the degree which Western scholars were aware of contemporary Easterners or Oriental moves of culture and thought, these were considered either as quiet shadows to be revived by the Orientalist, brought in reality by them, or as a type Of cultural and worldwide proletariat used for the Orientalist's grander interpretive action. - Much debate has since taken place regarding how to efficiently and fairly incorporate the subordinate voice into social studies. With such a huge mass of criticism against the idea of studying others", many social scientists felt paralyzed, fatalistically accepting it as an impossibility.

                     Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, an Indian postcolonial thinker, rejects this outright. To refuse to represent many cultural Other is climbing your conscience, and allowing you not to do any homework.". Spivak recognizes the project is debatable, as recovery and demonstration of a subaltern voice would probably make its message, negating its subaltern masses heterogeneity. Spivak suggests tactical essentialism - speaking in behalf of a group while utilizing a very clear image of identity to fight opposition - as the only solution to this problem. Applying this approach, hooked bells address its white academic reader on behalf of subordinates in the conclusion to his article Marginality as a site of resistance.

                      This is an intervention. A message from that space in the margin that is a site of creativity and power, that inclusive space where we recover ourselves, where we meet in solidarity to erase the category colonized\/colonizer. Marginality is the space of resistance. Enter that space. Let's meet there. Enter that space. We greet you as liberators. - Some postcolonial theorists make its argument which analyzing both dominant knowledge sets and marginalized ones since binary opposites perpetuates their presence as homogenous entities.