A REVIEW of POSTCOLONIALISM
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- This week's episode is a snapshot overview of previous episodes on postcolonialism, Frantz Fanon "The Fact of Blackness", Shakespeare's Othello, Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, and Tayeb Salih's Season of Migration to the North. Apart from the distinction between the “post-” as a temporal marker and then as the insignia of a particular theoretical orientation, the episode will also lay out the different forms of colonialism and colonial space-making from which postcolonialism derives, as well as the range of literary texts via which we can understand the concept and its various permutations.
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Suggested Reading:
- Orientalism by Edward Said
- Location of Culture by Homi Bhabha
- Death of a Disciple by Gayatri Spivak
- Empire, Colony, Postcolony by Robert J.C. Young
- Postcolonialism: Theory, Practice or Process? by Ato Quayson
- The Cambridge History of Postcolonial Literature, ed. by Ato Quayson
- The Cambridge Companion to the Postcolonial Novel, ed. by Ato Quayson
- Chinua Achebe, “An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness,” version revised for the 3rd Norton Critical edition of Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, 1988. First published in 1977.
- Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness, 5th Norton Critical Edition, edited by Paul B. Armstrong (2017).
- Roger Casement, “The Congo Report,” in Peter Singleton-Gates and Maurice Girodas, The Black Diaries: An Account of Roger Casement’s Life and Times with a Collection of His Diaries and Public Writings (1959)
- Adam Hoschsild, King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa (1998).
- Benita Parry, Conrad and Imperialism: Ideological Boundaries and Visionary Frontiers (1983)
- David Van Reybrouck, Congo: The Epic History of a People, trans. Sam Garret (2014)
- Silverman, Debora L. "Art Nouveau, Art of Darkness: African Lineages of Belgian Modernism, Part I." West 86th: A Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture 18, no. 2 (2011): 139-181.
- Silverman, Debora L. "Art Nouveau, Art of Darkness: African Lineages of Belgian Modernism, Part II." West 86th: A Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture 19, no. 2 (2012): 175-195.
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Interesting collaging the different talks together under the idea of " colonial space ". Thinking about your point of Fanon's experience and interpretation happening together, with no time line, in terms of space.
I'm enjoying the professor's critiques. In this one, I must say that at around the 7:20 mark the prof. should've included zionist israel & its treatment of Palestinians as the 3rd example of contemporary postcolonialism, after China & Russia to give a bit of balance with respect to NATO (i.e., U.S. & its minions) vs. non-NATO nations. Plus, israel's treatment of Palestinians is far more vicious, oppressive than that of the other two cited countries.
Poor sound,sir.
The sound is fine. You might want to increase the volume on your device.
@@CriticReadingWriting Sir, your content is fantastic and it really helps one to appreciate and understand and explore the continued discourse around postcolonialism and the the literature that has emerged as a result of critical thought on the subject. I must however state that the volume of the recording makes for a difficult listening experience as it is just about audible at full volume on my laptop in a quiet room. Please consider this as a technical suggestion rather than a critique of your work. Thank you