Thursday, August 27, 2009

ENGL373 - Lecture Notes

Colonialism - tribes and tribal authorities were used to control territories and their constituent populations, even when the authorities were clearly colonial puppets and the tribes themselves ossified almost beyond precolonial recognition.

Postcolonialism (PoCo)- Thus reminds us that colonialism remade the modern world and, by shaping the reactions against it, continues to do so.

"Colonial histories - the historical relations of domination between East and West - produced, and in turn were produced by, a range of discourses in which the colonial 'other' was essentialized, inferiorized, feminized, and ultimately naturalized as the always already colonized"

The Other - The non-self and the non-us. Who were ARE NOT. There is fear about what the other might do to us, about whether we could survice such an encounter with the unknown.

"There is nothing man fears more, than the touch of the unknown."

Globalization - refers to the ways in which individual and their cultures merge into a single, "global," society and attempt to function together.

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