CHAPTER 10

Post-Colonial and Global English Studies

Key word

Imperialism“the creation and maintenance of an unequal economic, cultural

and territorial relationship, usually between states and often in the form of an empire, based on domination and subordination.”

ColonialismColonialism is the building and maintaining of colonies in one

territory by people from another territory.

From wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperialism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonialism

GlobalizationGlobalization describes an ongoing process

by which regional economies, societies, and cultures have become integrated through a globe-spanning network of communication and execution. The term is sometimes used to refer specifically to economic globalization: the integration of national economies into the international economy through trade, foreign direct investment, capital flows, migration, and the spread of technology.

Age of Discovery

A Devastating Cultural Exchange

Indigenous population disappearedCultures destroyedFree people became slavesResources scrambled

The results…

Cultural homogenizationLinking and mixing

Post-colonial literary scholars study both sides of the imperial equation.

Jane EyreOther post-colonial scholars examine the

cultural fronts where imperial and subaltern cultures meet in such places as India.

Orientalism

Edward SaidHow imperialism worked in the realm of

intellectual and cultural discourse

Edward Said

Early lifeEducationOrientalism

Important concept

DiasporaHybridityAmbiguityMimicryMestizajecreolization

Heart of Darkness

A post-colonial approach

Find the Prisoner in Heart of Darkness

References: Ryan, Michael. Literary Theory. Pecora, P. Vincent. Self & Form In Modern

Narrative. Ruppel, Richard. Imperial Desire. Murfin, Ross, ed. Heart of darkness: A Case

Study In Contemporary Criticism. Parry, Bentia. Conrad And Imperialism. Achebe, Chinua. "An Image of Africa: Racism

in Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness'"

剖析黑暗之心的權力架構 過往評論 : 帝國主義或種族論 ?筆者意見 : 跳脫不出的框架，察覺，批判，但仍身陷

其中去殖民化，有改變的可能 ?

Introduction

Joseph Conrad