ENGL 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Postcolonial Literature, Flash Fiction, Hyperbole

• School: Queen's University
• Department: English
• Course: ENGL 200
• Professor: Leslie Ritche

Document Summary

Post-colo(cid:374)ial: the te(cid:396)(cid:373) des(cid:272)(cid:396)i(cid:271)es the histo(cid:396)(cid:455), lite(cid:396)atu(cid:396)e, a(cid:374)d (cid:272)ultu(cid:396)e of a(cid:374) eu(cid:396)opea(cid:374) (cid:374)atio(cid:374)(cid:859)s former colonies. Post means after; post-colonial therefore means after colonization. We will read post-(cid:272)olo(cid:374)ial lite(cid:396)atu(cid:396)e i(cid:374) e(cid:374)glish f(cid:396)o(cid:373) b(cid:396)itai(cid:374)(cid:859)s fo(cid:396)(cid:373)e(cid:396) (cid:272)olo(cid:374)ies including canada, Britain: mother country, center of empire and culture- the colonizer. Effects of colonial power structures: colonial subjects were exposed to british law, education, governance, and to the idea of english as the language of the ruling class. Structures of authority caused these subjects to view and internalize their peripheral position as different or other, and my implication, lesser than that of the colonizing nation. Post-colonial: a capacious term: work written in the period after the colonial model has ceased to function fully in a particular country, when the writers of a former colony start to (cid:395)uestio(cid:374) the (cid:272)olo(cid:374)ial (cid:373)odel(cid:859)s (cid:272)ultu(cid:396)al a(cid:374)d li(cid:374)guisti(cid:272) lega(cid:272)ies. Does not point to a specific time period or to a particular critical stance.