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Theory/Critical Lens/Readings

Theory/Critical Lens/Readings. Nothing “right” or “wrong” about different theories Ways of looking at the world Ways of reinterpreting the human experience Lenses through which to view cultural artifacts Theories borrow from each other Rarely does a scholar use only one theory.

JasminFlorian
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Theory/Critical Lens/Readings

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  1. Theory/Critical Lens/Readings • Nothing “right” or “wrong” about different theories • Ways of looking at the world • Ways of reinterpreting the human experience • Lenses through which to view cultural artifacts • Theories borrow from each other • Rarely does a scholar use only one theory

  2. Postcolonialism • Main Concern • Study of cultures formerly (or currently) colonized • Power struggle between cultures • Intersection of cultures • Approaches • Study of colonizing process • …colonization fallout • …new colonizing efforts

  3. Key Concepts in Postcolonialism • Appropriation • take (something) for one's own use, typically without the owner's permission. • ie. Dias de los muertes • Cultural colonization • subjugation of colonized culture in all respects • imposition of colonizer’s culture on colonized

  4. Key Concepts in Postcolonialism • Othering: assumption those who are different from oneself are inferior • Demonic Other: view those who are different from oneself are backward, savage, even evil • Exoticized Other/exoticizing: view those who are different possess an inherent dignity and beauty, perhaps because of more undeveloped, natural state of being. Seen as object of desire, something to possess

  5. Key Concepts in Postcolonialism • Double vision/double consciousness: sense of being part of both colonized and colonizing cultures • Eurocentrism: view that European (including American) ideals and experiences are the standard

  6. Key Concepts in Postcolonialism • Mimicry: imitation of the dress, manners, and language of the dominant culture by the oppressed • Hybridity: quality of cultures that have characteristics of both the colonizers and the colonized. Colonizer anxiety/Colonized power

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