PostColonialisms II Strategies of Resistance PostColonialism Major Issues
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Post-Colonialisms (II) Strategies of Resistance
Post-Colonialism: Major Issues 1. Colonialisms Definition Orientalism & Lit. examples of Colonialism – – 2. Post-Colonialism: Resistance and Immigration A. Resisting colonialism/Constructing postcolonial identities through • • • Language, History and Identity Construction Strategies: Separatism (Nativism), Re. Creation, Cultural Syncreticism, Mimicry, Active participation, Assimilation. examples B. Diaspora and Globalization
Resistance and Constructing postcolonial identities w Language: reversing or confusing the language hierarchy w (I. ) the use of Taiwanese, 客家話 w (II) mixing languages: (Three stages: Adopt, Adapt, Adept) e. g. “My Man Bovanne”
Identity and Strategies w Identity w Separatism (Nativism), w Integration, Active participation, Duality and Hybridity w Strategies w Essentialist Construction w Re-Creation, w Cultural Syncreticism, w Conscious Mimicry w Assimilation.
Post-Structuralist + Post-Colonial Theories of Cultural Difference w Cultural Difference: with gaps and fissures in need of constant negotiation. w (Against Multiculturalism) w “Culture as a strategy of survival is both transnational and translational. ” (Homi Bhabha)
Post-Structuralist + Post-Colonial Theories of Mimicry and the Subaltern w Différance C center The Subaltern cannot speak (Spivak). Colonial Mimicry: All the same but not quite-- Indian gentleman or Indian celebration of U. K. ’s national day. Taiwanese Imitation of Madonna
Conscious Mimicry w Yong Soon Min Make Me, 1989
Conscious Mimicry/Parody w Ken Chu w I Need some More Hair Products (1988)
Post-Colonial Literature: Example (1) w “Good Advice is Rarer than Rubies” by Salman Rushdie w power relations among Ms. Rehana as a Tuesday woman, M. Ali, “lala” the British Consulate, and her fiance. w Ms. Rehana’s decision.
“My Man Bonvanne” w Toni Cade Bambara (1939 - 1995), author of “The Lesson” w the narrator, Miss Hazel Peoples w her language: Black English (ebonics) w her style: wig, cornrows
“My Man Bonvanne” w The setting? w Why does Miss Hazel dance so closely with Bonvanne? What role does she play in her relationship with Bonvanne? (p. 23 "Wasn't about tits. ”; p. 26) w Her children’s disagreement and Ms. Hazel’s response (Task, Elo, and Joe Lee) w What does the last bathing ritual mean?