T V 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Hybridity, Deconstructivism, Deconstruction
Document Summary
09th january 2019: postcolonial studies, postcolonial studies emerged with the decline of modern western colonial empires in. Four understandings of post": post = after. Historical understanding: post = resisting against colonialism and its after-effects, from the colonial period until today. Political understanding: post = affected/marked by colonialism during and after. Thematic understanding: post = cultural materials originating in countries formerly (or currently) colonised by modern western imperial powers. Regional understanding: postcolonial new literatures: still using english language but britain is not the cultural centre anymore (africa, asia, . ) Representational practices of western power systems constructing the non- western as inferior. Questioning the justifying and stabilizing of colonial hierarchies. Museum: material side of the state, material self-presentation: edward said: orientalist discourse (1978, palestinian-american literary theorist, advocate for palestinian rights founding figure of postcolonial studies" and colonial discourse analysis" theoretical framework: foucauldian.
