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Colonialism and Literature

Colonialism and Literature. 69-94 of Loomba. The main points. 1. Literary texts don’t just reflect dominant ideologies, but encode the tensions, complexities and nuances within colonial cultures. (Donne’s poetry)

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Colonialism and Literature

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  1. Colonialism and Literature 69-94 of Loomba

  2. The main points 1. Literary texts don’t just reflect dominant ideologies, but encode the tensions, complexities and nuances within colonial cultures. (Donne’s poetry) • Language and Literature worked together to construct the binary of a European self and a non-European other. (Hurricane and Cannibal) • Literary texts not only reflect dominant ideologies, they also militate against them, or contain elements that cannot be reconciled to them. (Othello and The Tempest, Kipling)

  3. Main Points cont. • Literary texts embody cultural interactions. They are not “pure.” • Literary texts work in conjunction with other forms of representation: • http://employees.oneonta.edu/farberas/arth/Images/ARTH200/amerigovespucci.jpg • http://www.metmuseum.org/store/st_family_viewer.asp/familyID/%7BB6FE3754-B560-11D4-93B8-00902786BF44%7D/shopperID/FromPage/catSpecialValues/FromPage/familyNo/3/catID/%7BC567490E-37A3-4E61-89B6-4B2AE087C70A%7D

  4. Main points 6. All literature, even if it doesn’t seem to address colonial issues, is embroiled in colonial discourse. (Mansfield Park, Great Expectations) 7. Rereading, reading again, reading against the grain have become the tools of postcolonial scholars. (Jane Eyre, Wide Sargasso Sea) • The power of literature as an tool of cultural interpellation. (Mnthali) • The question of what language to write in (The debate between Achebe and Ngugi) • What do we read? (The need for the recovery, celebration, circulation, and reinterpretation of non-western lit.)

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