A S L 3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Rachel Carson, Anthropocentrism, Transcendentalism
9 Sep 2020
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Ideology of colonialism: colonial discourse analysis (said) Practices involved, institutions involved: mimicry and hybridity (bhabha) Bottom line: third space contact zone between two cultures -> hybridity, you can actually emerge from: subalternity (spivak) Basic criticism: its not just about the postcolonial subject. The experience is different whether you are a woman or a man, black or white, old or young and so on. Those black woman can"t speak for themselves and nobody can speak for them. We have to be very much aware from the position from which we speak. Provisional temporary alliances (temporary bridging of differences) Postcolonial identity: double identity, being in two worlds. Super recent, political (green agenda) 1990s. Study of the relation between literature and the physical environment. Study of the relationship of human and non-human, throughout human cultural history and entailing critical analysis of the term human" itself. Its not all just language, insist on the physical reality.
