ENG280H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Congo River, Zoophilia, Cultural Hegemony
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Eng280 lecture 10: critical approaches to literature: depictions of the orient (03-18-19) Postcolonial theory: addresses and theorizes postcolonial experience (especially hybridity, hybridity--when area is freed from colonization, forces from prior state and newer colonial forces blend together, critiques colonial frameworks and paradigm and seeks a postcolonial mode of thought. Orientalism: stereotyped portrayal of east european fantasy about nature of eastern subjects. The orient as other: orientalism is way of coming to terms with orient based on orient"s special place in european. West simultaneously distances itself from east: orient has defined europe/west as its contrasting image, idea, personality, experience. Two kinds of closely related orientalism: 1) academic orientalism those who teach, write about or research orient/east, 2) style of thought based on ontological and epistemological distinction made between the. Irony that scholars and writers writing about the orient never visited it, only examined prior texts and representations of orient.
