English Literature / Unit 19 ENL 1812 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Postcolonial Criticism
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The idea
Postcolonial criticism examines how literature represents empire and the colonized. Edward Said's Orientalism, of nineteen seventy-eight, critiqued Western depictions of the East; Homi Bhabha theorized hybridity; Gayatri Spivak defined the subaltern carefully. Fry's lectures trace a line from Said to Bhabha.
In practice
Said, Bhabha, Spivak.
Where people slip
Attribute each concept to its critic.
Your place on the trail
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