THEA 3235 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: James Fenimore Cooper, Noble Savage, Acoma Pueblo
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Tony bhabba 2005: the other question: the stereotype and colonial discourse. Fixity is an important of colonial discourse: fixity is a quality or state of being fixed or stable. To construct otherness, the colonial discourse needs fixity. Fixity is a paradoxical mode of representation (things do not change): it connotes rigidity and an unchanging order as well as disorder, degeneracy and daemonic repetition. Stereotype: a conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image. One that is regarded as embodying or conforming to a set image or type. The colonial discourse uses a system of truth that is similar to realism. Orientalism is a kind of radicalism, when you name something through a stereotype, it becomes a reality. Radical realism : anyone employing orientalism will designate, name, point to fix what he is talking or thinking about with a word or phrase, which then is considered either to have acquired, or more simply to be, reality .
