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Post-Colonial and Global English Studies

Post-Colonial and Global English Studies. CHAPTER 10. Key word. From wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperialism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonialism. Imperialism

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Post-Colonial and Global English Studies

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  1. Post-Colonial and Global English Studies CHAPTER 10

  2. Key word From wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperialism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonialism • 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.” • Colonialism • Colonialism is the building and maintaining of colonies in one territory by people from another territory.

  3. Globalization • Globalization 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.

  4. Age of Discovery

  5. A Devastating Cultural Exchange • Indigenous population disappeared • Cultures destroyed • Free people became slaves • Resources scrambled The results…

  6. Cultural homogenization • Linking and mixing

  7. Post-colonial literary scholars study both sides of the imperial equation. • Jane Eyre • Other post-colonial scholars examine the cultural fronts where imperial and subaltern cultures meet in such places as India.

  8. Orientalism • Edward Said • How imperialism worked in the realm of intellectual and cultural discourse

  9. Edward Said • Early life • Education • Orientalism

  10. Important concept • Diaspora • Hybridity • Ambiguity • Mimicry • Mestizaje • creolization

  11. Heart of Darkness A post-colonial approach

  12. 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'"

  13. 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?

  14. Introduction Joseph Conrad

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