By: Mailee Larronde Natalie Quigg Carlos Soriano
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natalie_quiggBy: Mailee Larronde Natalie Quigg Carlos Soriano
Definition of Postcolonialism theory:
Post colonialism is defined as the period after the thirteen
colonies became independent. A textbook definition can be viewed as the period following the decline of colonialism. However, it can also be seen as a critical approach referring to a collection of theoretical and critical strategies to examine the culture of former colonies of 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. -Natalie Q.
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.
-Mailee L.
Examples Postcolonialism
EXAMPLES: To the extent that Western scholars were aware of contemporary Orientals or Oriental movements of thought and culture, these were perceived either as silent shadows to be animated by the Orientalist, brought into reality by them, or as a kind of cultural and international proletariat useful for the Orientalist's grander interpretive activity. (Said, 1978: 208) Larbi Sadiki wrote in The Search for Arab Democracy: Discourses and Counter-Discourses (2004), because European colonial powers drew borders discounting peoples, ancient tribal boundaries, and local history, the Middle Easts contemporary national identity problem can be traced back to imperialism and colonialism. Poet and novelist Giannina Braschi from Puerto Rico directly addresses the colonial situation of Puerto Rico in United States of Banana. -Carlos S.
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 Rushdie and EM Forster A Passage to India.
An example of the theory would be after so many
countries gaining power after the colonies separated and became independent, millions of people now live in the world formed by decolonization. -Natalie Q.
Books and authors:
-Mailee L.
Notable Theorists
Edward Said
Gayatri Chakravorty Dipesh Chakrabarty Frantz fanon
-Carlos S.
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 the idea that any kind of sexual activity or identity can be normative and include deviant categories.
-Natalie Q.
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 in movies and in how our country is changing. We are now having independent states accepting same sex marriages.
-Mailee L.
Gender studies/ gender theory
Gender studies and queer theory explores issues of
sexuality, power, and marginalized populations (woman and 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 the the fixed categories of sexual identity and the cognitive paradigms generated by normative (that is, what is considered normal) sexual ideology. -Carlos S.
Gender Studies
o Gender Studies: it is the study on the feminism and
masculine differences in society and how it impacts our daily lives.
o For Feminist Gender theory it deals with the views that
males have about women and roles that women should be and should not be in.
o It is a movement that helped shape our society and assisted
in getting rid of intolerance in our world today.
-Mailee L.
Examples of Queer Theory
Examples: 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 more piquantly sexy by some heterosexual men than those women who wear white frocks and gloves and look down demurely" (Richter 1437). "Fuss, Eng. et al and Edelman represent distinct moment in the development of queer theory. Whereas Fuss aims to discompose and render inert the reigning classifications of sexual identity, Eng. et al observe the extension of a deconstructive strategy to a wider field of normalization, while Edelmans work takes not only the specter of the homosexual, but the very notion of society as a manifestation of psychological distress requiring composition" (Green 2007). "There are cultures where it has been normal, not exceptional, for men to have homosexual 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 were demonstrative about their feeling for their friends. Mateship in the Australian outback last century is a case in point.(R.W. Connell in Men, Masculinities and Feminism)
-Carlos
Explaining gender study/queer theory
Most gender theorists believe your are not born what
you become but that you have to learn to become that way. Example: philosopher Simone de Beauvoir said One is not born a woman, one becomes one.
-Natalie Q.
Gender study/queer theorists
Sara Ahmed Leo Bersani
Tim Dean
Alan Sinfield
-Mailee L.
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
-Natalie Q.
Books and authors:
-Carlos S.
