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By: Mailee Larronde

Natalie Quigg

Carlos Soriano


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Definition of Postcolonialism

theory: Post colonialism is defined as the period after the thirteen

colonies became independent. A textbook definition canbe viewed as the period following the decline of

colonialism. However, it can also be seen as a criticalapproach referring to a collection of theoretical andcritical strategies to examine the culture of former coloniesof the European empires, and their relation to the rest of

the world. (Makaryk 155) Post-colonialism also deals with conflicts of identity and

cultural belonging.

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Explaining postcolonialism Postcolonialism tries to understand the power and

continued dominance of the western way of

knowing. Postcolonialism also investigates the relationship

between colonizers and the colonized.

Postcolonialism Is often used in literature but can

also be used in other fields like: architecture,religion and history.

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Examples PostcolonialismEXAMPLES: To the extent that Western scholars were aware of contemporary

Orientals or Oriental movements of thought and culture, these wereperceived either as silent shadows to be animated by the Orientalist,

brought into reality by them, or as a kind of cultural and internationalproletariat useful for the Orientalist's grander interpretive activity.(Said, 1978: 208)

Larbi Sadiki wrote in The Search for Arab Democracy: Discourses andCounter-Discourses (2004), because European colonial powers drewborders discounting peoples, ancient tribal boundaries, and localhistory, the Middle Easts contemporary national identity problem canbe traced back to imperialism and colonialism.

Poet and novelist Giannina Braschi from Puerto Rico directly addressesthe colonial situation of Puerto Rico in United States of Banana.

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Examples of postcolonial text and

examples of the theory: Things fall apart by Chinua Achebe, Wide Sargasso Sea

by Jean Rhys, Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdieand EM Forster A Passage to India.

An example of the theory would be after so manycountries gaining power after the colonies separated

and became independent, millions of people now livein the world formed by decolonization.

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Books and authors:

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Notable Theorists

Edward Said

Gayatri Chakravorty

Dipesh Chakrabarty

Frantz fanon

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Definition of gender study/Queer

theory Queer theory originates from the idea that gender is

part of the essential self. It started arising in the 1990s

and began during the feminist era. It expands on theidea that any kind of sexual activity or identity can benormative and include deviant categories.

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Queer Theory There are many ways that Queer theory has applied itself to literature in our

society today. We not only have seen it in literature but we have also seen it inmovies and in how our country is changing. We are now having independentstates accepting same sex marriages.

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Gender studies/ gender theory Gender studies and queer theory explores issues of

sexuality, power, and marginalized populations (womanand other) and also the investigation of all gender and

sexual categories and identities in literature and culture. Masculine gender theory deals with men, Feminine gender

theory deals with women and Queer theory deals with thethe fixed categories of sexual identity and the cognitive

paradigms generated by normative (that is, what isconsidered normal) sexual ideology.

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Gender Studieso Gender Studies: it is the study on the feminism and

masculine differences in society and how it impacts ourdaily lives.

o For Feminist Gender theory it deals with the views thatmales have about women and roles that women should beand should not be in.

o It is a movement that helped shape our society and assistedin getting rid of intolerance in our world today.

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Examples of Queer TheoryExamples: The distinction between "masculine" and "feminine" activities and behavior is constantly

changing, so that women who wear baseball caps and fatigues...can be perceived as morepiquantly sexy by some heterosexual men than those women who wear white frocks andgloves and look down demurely" (Richter 1437).

"Fuss, Eng. et al and Edelman represent distinct moment in the development of queertheory. Whereas Fuss aims to discompose and render inert the reigning classifications ofsexual identity, Eng. et al observe the extension of a deconstructive strategy to a widerfield of normalization, while Edelmans work takes not only the specter of thehomosexual, but the very notion of society as a manifestation of psychological distressrequiring composition" (Green 2007).

"There are cultures where it has been normal, not exceptional, for men to havehomosexual relations. There have been periods in 'Western' history when the modern

convention that men suppress displays of emotion did not apply at all, when men weredemonstrative about their feeling for their friends. Mateship in the Australian outbacklast century is a case in point.(R.W. Connell inMen, Masculinities and Feminism)

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Explaining gender study/queer

theory Most gender theorists believe your are not born what

you become but that you have to learn to become thatway.

Example: philosopher Simone de Beauvoir said One isnot born a woman, one becomes one.

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Gender study/queer theorists

Sara Ahmed Leo Bersani

Tim Dean Alan Sinfield

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Gender studies/queer theory texts Foucault, Michel. The History of Sexuality,

Warner, Michael. The Trouble with Normal: Sex,

Politics, and the Ethics of Queer Life.Munoz, Jos Esteban. Disidentifications: Queers of

Color and the Performance of Politics.

Halberstam, Judith. In a Queer Time and Place:

Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives

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