A S L 3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Dionne Brand, Witi Ihimaera, Chinua Achebe
9 Sep 2020
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In the former colonies, political decolonization (the process of gaining political independence from the coloniser) was thus accompanied by a process of achieving cultural self-definition. The term postcolonial refers to this break or transition, away from the influence of a hegemonic, politically and culturally dominant power (the coloniser) towards self-determination and self-definition of the former colonised. Neocolonial" or neo-imperialist" practices in the process of globalisation. Postcolonial" is not limited to literature after independence but is often used to refer to all cultural forms of expression affected by colonialism, imperialism or slavery. (berensmeyer, ingo. Postcolonial studies (in the narrow sense) emerged in the late 1970s. Predecessors (e. g. frantz fanon: black skin, white masks, originally published in 1952 in french) Analysis of literary texts written in (formerly) colonised countries (e. g. australia, new zealand, Analysis of texts written by representatives of the (formerly) colonising nations that create and perpetuate ways of seeing the colonized and the colonies (example: frances hodgson burnett, the.
