Department of English

• Present by Heeral A.Bhatt• Roll no. 07• Batchyear 2013• Semester 3• Paper no. 11• Unit no. 5• Guide by Dr.Dilip Barad

Presentation Topic

• Key concepts in post colonialism1) Hybridity2) Other 3) Discourse4) Anti-colonialism

Hybridity two different definitions

• catalysis: the (specifically New World) experience of several ethnic groups interacting and mixing with each other often in a contentious environment that gives way to new forms of identity and experience.

• creolization: societies that arise from a mixture of ethnic and racial mixing to form a new material, psychological, and spiritual self-definition.

Hybridity in linguistics

The post colonial turn

Hybridity in Art

Hybridity

Theorists of Hybridity

Homi Bhabha

Nester Garcia

Stuart Hall

Gayatri Spivak

Paul Gliroy

Rethinking post colonialism and hybridity

“How does one conceptualise impure, hybrid, incommensurable modes of thinking and being, without filtering them of their messiness? “• Akil Gupta (1998: 6)

Mimicry, Ambivalence, and Hybridity

Example of mimicry

Frantz Fanon in the phrase, “black skin/white masks,” or as “mimic

men” by V.S.Naipaul.

Other

• other: the social and/or psychological ways in which one group excludes or marginalizes another group. By declaring someone "Other," persons tend to stress what makes them dissimilar from or opposite of another, and this carries over into the way they represent others, especially through stereotypical images.

Other

‘O’ il‘O’pium

Discourse

• “ It is a systems of thoughts composed of idea,attitudes,courses of action ,beliefs and practices hat systemetically constructs the subjects and the worlds of which they speak

Michel Foucault

Colonial Discourse

Popularized by Edward Said

Anti- colonialism

“ Anti- colonialism is an act of political struggle of colonized people against the

specific ideology and practice of colonialism”

Submitted to

S.B.Gardi Department of English M.K.Bhavanagar universitySubmission Date : 15/10/2013

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