Post-Colonialism notes

Post-Colonialism 

• In the 19^th and early 20^th centuries, Britain and other European countries held colonial

• Post-Colonialism emphasises the importance of the cultural, economic, political and military dominance of this past.

• The absence of non-white image the media- suggest that white people are in charger and have control on the media

• Edward said (1995)

• “It is a perspective that suggest the East and the Orient and representations of both fear and fascination’

• Diaspora

• ‘People experience a sense of belonging to a culture which is ‘other’ to the dominant culture of the country of residence’ – different culture

• Alvarado (1987)

• Suggest that there are four different types of representations for the black people/community

• The Humours – white straight man

• The Exotic or sexually promiscuous- women – male gaze

• The Pitied – look after by the white power

• The dangerous 

• Colonialism normally refers to a period of history the 15th to the 20th century when people from Europe built colonies on other continents

• The profit to be made

• To expand the power of the colonising

• To escape persecution by the colonising country

• To convert the indigenous population to the colonist religions

• Political and legal domination over an alien society

• Frantz Fanon (1952)

• Black skin, White Mask

• Mock their master

• Black people want to be white - Hair, eyes and skin colour

• 'White people are successful

• 'Putting on the White Mask'

• Infantilize

• Primitivize

• Decivilize

• Essentilize

• ''Third World' - Homogenised in western discourse under on umbrella label

• Post Colonialism recognizes that there was, and still is, resistance to the west

• Subaltern- a group of marginalize