A 'decolonised' syllabus: the BAME authors you think students should read. Post-Colonial Resources. “The poetry of Wole Soyinka, Maya Angelou and Lakdasa Wikkramasinha poignantly depicts postcolonial experiences.” During the 16th century, the world experienced the phenomenon, presently termed as “Colonialism” which is the process of European settlement and political control over certain parts of the world (Margaret Kohn, 2006).
Postcolonialism is the study of the era after the European and American decolonization (mid-20th century) and the residual political, socio-economic, and psychological after effects of colonization. In addition, the literary work during this era known as postcolonial literature had been “affected by the imperial process from the moment of colonization to the present day.” It is deeply marked by experiences of cultural exclusion and division under empire (Elleke Boehmer, 1995). This analysis focuses on such similar postcolonial experiences depicted in the poems, “Don’t talk to me about Matisse,” “Telephone Conversation” and “Momma Welfare Roll” by Lakdasa Wikkramasinha, Wole Soyinka and Maya Angelou respectively. Similarly, Angelou deals with experiences of discrimination. "An African Elegy" - a poem by Ben Okri.
Different Cultures-AQA Anthology for GCSE. Introduction This guide is written for students and teachers who are preparing for GCSE exams in English literature.
It contains detailed studies of the poems from Different Cultures in the AQA Anthology, which is a set text for the AQA's GCSE syllabuses for English and English Literature Specification A, from the 2004 exam onwards. The writers in this section may live in the UK as members of ethnic minority groups or may live overseas. All the poems in this section are written largely or wholly in English, but in several you will find non-standard varieties of English, while several make use of other languages.
One even has text in Gujarati. The guide gives detailed readings of poems from Different Cultures, with ideas for study. Go the Introduction to poetry in the AQA Anthology On this page I use red type for emphasis. Back to top Edward Kamau Brathwaite: Limbo. "Colonial Girls School" by Olive Senior: An Appreciation. In Frances-Anne's post, she wrote, "Creation is a form of Terror, particularly when you come from a colonial context and background in which Empire (read: a sense of inferiority) was imposed through education, language, culture, as much if not more than through the barrel of a gun.
" This insult to our minds, hearts, and bodies is one of the themes of Olive Senior's, "Colonial Girls School," and the erasure of sense and sensibility by suppression of the natural, denial of the native, and the implied superiority of "northern eyes" is masterfully woven through the text with use of the prefix-de. The poem's iconoclastic language relies on the metaphor of "images" that are shattered at the end of the poem, "How the mirror broke," and the word play on "pale.
" Colonial Girls School For Marlene Smith MacLeish. GCSE Bitesize: Context. IGCSE Literature in English 0486 : A Different History by Sujata Bhatt. Matthew's Poetry Analysis: A Different History - Sujata Bhatt. A Different History Sujata Bhatt Summary: The poet here talks about the affects of colonization or globalization for that matter.
Whatever the case she addresses a sudden change in the way society thinks and how we should try to preserve it. IGCSE LITERATURE: 'A Different History' by Sujata Bhatt. Postcolonial and Postimperial Literature: An Overview. Department of English Languages and Literature - Courses. Copyright 1997, 1998 by John Lye.
This text may be freely used, with attribution, for non-profit purposes. As with all of my posts for this course, this document is open to change. If you have any suggestions (additions, qualifications, arguments), mail me. Post-colonial theory deals with the reading and writing of literature written in previously or currently colonized countries, or literature written in colonizing countries which deals with colonization or colonized peoples. It focuses particularly on. The Empire Writes Back. PostcolDefs. You should read over the following definitions in order to understand some of the basic ideas associated with post-colonialist literature: colonialism: The imperialist expansion of Europe into the rest of the world during the last four hundred years in which a dominant imperium or center carried on a relationship of control and influence over its margins or colonies.
This relationship tended to extend to social, pedagogical, economic, political, and broadly culturally exchanges often with a hierarchical European settler class and local, educated (compractor) elite class forming layers between the European "mother" nation and the various indigenous peoples who were controlled. Such a system carried within it inherent notions of racial inferiority and exotic otherness. Musings on British Literature: 1790 to Present: Themes in The God of Small Things.
In The God of Small Things, there are two central themes.
One of these themes is memory, or the act of forgetting, most specifically Estha’s deliberate forgetting. Related to the theme of memory is time and its different aspects: captured time and the subjectivity of time. I found Estha’s forgetting, or as he calls it, "hoovering" his mind, to be one of the most compelling themes. He does it because of one particular memory, the memory of when he told the police that Velthua kidnapped him and Rahel. It is that memory that he cannot get rid of, despite his efforts. The theme of time is symbolised by Rahel's plastic wristwatch that has the time "ten to two" painted on it. British Empire: Student Zone. Armed Forces | Art and Culture | Articles | Biographies | Discussion | Glossary | Home | Library | Links | Map Room | Sources and Media | Science and Technology | Search | Student Zone | Timelines | TV & Film | Wargames | <a target="_blank" href=" Empire Items on Ebay</a><img style="text-decoration:none;border:0;padding:0;margin:0;" src="
Postcolonial Literature. Main page | 20th-century literature | some postcolonial authors | Filipino-American literature Introduction & Definition "After Iraq: Reframing Postcolonial Studies.
" Editorial by Priyamvada Gopal and Neil Lazarus. New Formations 59. "'Postcolonial Literature': Problems with the Term. " "Introduction to Postcolonial Studies. " Literary Criticism Aboul-Ela, Hosam. Adesanmi, Pius. Bachmann-Medick, Doris. Boehmer, Elleke. Inglorious Enterprise.