It is the critical academic study of colonialism and Imperialism's cultural, political and economic legacy.
It focuses on the impact of human control and exploitation of colonized people and their lands.
This is a critical theory analysis of imperial power's history, Culture, literature, and discourse.
Postcolonialism is modelled on postmodernism, which shares certain concepts and methods.
It focuses on the influences of colonialism in literature.
It primarily focuses on the historical conflict resulting from exploiting less developed countries and indigenous peoples by Western nations.
Postcolonial literary study is in two categories:
The study of postcolonial nations;
Studying postcolonial national identities.
Postcolonialism is derived from the colonizer's generation of cultural knowledge about the colonized people.
It derives from how Western cultural knowledge was applied to non-European people.
The cultural identities of 'colonizer' and 'colonized'.
Postcolonialism is aimed at how colonialists "perceive," "understand," and "know" the world.
In The Wretched of the Earth (1961), Frantz Fanon analyzes and medically describes the nature of colonialism as essentially destructive.
E. San Juan, Jr. considers Edward Said "the originator and inspiring patron-saint of postcolonial theory and discourse."
Orientalism by Edward W. Said establishes the term "Orientalism" as a critical concept to describe the West's depiction and portrayal of The East or the Orient.
Spivak cautioned against assigning an overbroad meaning to the term subaltern in the postcolonial era.
Spivak also describes the social functions of postcolonialism as essentialism and strategic essentialism.
In The Location of Culture (1994), Homi K. Bhabha argues that the human world is composed of separate and unequal cultures rather than a single integrated human world.
"Santiniketan: The Making of a Contextual Modernism" was an influential exhibition organized by R. Siva Kumar at the National Gallery of Modern Art.
Dipesh Chakrabarty charts the subaltern history of the Indian struggle for independence in Provincializing Europe (2000).
In his The Colonial Present, Derek Gregory argues the long trajectory through the history of British and American colonization is an ongoing process.
Amar Acheraiou wrote Rethinking Postcolonialism: Colonialist Discourse in Modern Literature and the Legacy of Classical Writers.
Waiting for the Barbarians (1980) by Coetzee illustrates the unfair and inhuman situation of people dominated by settlers.
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o wrote Weep Not, Child (1964), a novel about colonial Imperialism in East Africa, and Decolonizing the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature (1986).
"The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literature" is a 1989 non-fiction book on postcolonialism, penned by Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin.
The postcolonialist theorists are mentioned below:
Franz Fanon
Edward Said,
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak,
Homi Bhabha
Declan Kiberd
Derek Gregory
Paul Gilroy
Aimé Césaire
Chandra Talpade Mohanty
Sara Suleri
Gauri Viswanathan
Leela Gandhi
Amar Acheraiou
R. Siva Kumar
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