ENGL 2120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Postcolonialism, Hybridity

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: English
• Course: ENGL 2120
• Professor: Julie Cairnie

Document Summary

Issue that it is often used in the singular. Theory developed by literary scholars or those in humanities. Interested in binaries between east and west (perspective from the west dominant binary) A way of speaking about the east. A contrast, but interdependency (the west cant talk about the east without talking about itself and vice versa) Orientalism" originally an academic designation (europeans who would study the orient) A way of talking about the orient that secures power and authority over it (maintaining power and authority) Book examines how this all happened (how this discourse came to be) Hybridity is product of colonial encounters and colonial thinking. Can expose flaws in the system not just a meeting/synthesis but can expose. Difference of cultural practices mimicry (colonized is a mimic) Colonizers think they are providing a sort of code" see themselves reflected back (don"t like what they see?) Mimicry gives some of the colonized power back. Formally colonized countries familiar but defamiliarized.