Introduction Part of Ania Loomba’s Colonialism/Postcolonialism

Name : Solanki Sardarsinh

Roll No :24 Semester : 3 Year : 2014-15

Paper 11 : The Postcolonial Literature

Submitted to:Smt. S.B.Gardi

Department Of EnglishM.K.Bhavnagar University

Introduction

She received her B..A, M.A and M.Phill degrees from the Delhi University

She researches and teaches early modern literature, histories of race and colonialism, postcolonial studies, feminist theory, and cotemporary Indian literature and culture

What is Colonialism?

“A settlement in a new country… a body of people who settle in a new locality, forming a community subject to or connected with their parent state; the community so formed , consisting of the original settlers and their descendants and successors, as

long as the connection with the parent stateis kept up.”

-Ania Loomba’s colonialism/postcolonialism

Roots of colonialism and postcolonialism

No much difference

It’s roots were in the Columbus arrival for the new found land.

Ania Loomba’s views about colonialism/postcolonialism

Colonialism is the physical occupation of territory and post colonialism deals with the effects of colonization on culture and societies

Imperialism

Neo-colonialism

Colonial literature

Imperialism

The Oxford English Dictionary defines ‘imperial’ as ‘pertaining to empire’ and ‘imperialism’ as the rule of an emperor, especially when despotic and arbitrary

This word is coined by British prime minister Benjamin

Neo-colonialism

It is the highest stage of colonialism

The main aim of the it is that, after world war-2 maintain control of their formal colonies and economic arrangement

Colonial literature

War creates the vast influenced on the mind of the writers

Aime Cesaire,s “A Tempest”

Girish Karnad’s “Hayavadana”

Gaytri Spivak’s “Can the Subaltern Speak”