Flashcards: Understanding Postcolonialism and Colonial Legacies — 20 cartões

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1Pergunta

Postcolonialism — definition?

Resposta

An umbrella field studying colonialism’s effects today.

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Postcolonial studies — focus?

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Academic research on colonialism’s past and present impacts.

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Postcolonial literature(s) — role?

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Creative writings related to colonial experiences.

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Postcolonial criticism — purpose?

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Analyzing literary works for meaning and significance.

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Colonial legacy — meaning?

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Persistent political, economic, social, racial, cultural effects.

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Postcolonialism — scope?

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Ideas, practices, and texts about colonialism’s ongoing influence.

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Postcolonialism — starting period?

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Began in the 1980s as a distinct academic field.

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Postcolonial world debate — key issue?

Resposta

Whether neocolonialism continues colonial dominance after independence.

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Settler colonies — example?

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Canada, Australia, South Africa, Ireland.

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Indigenous dispossession — effect?

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Displacement and marginalization of native peoples.

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British Atlantic expansion — phase?

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Driven by military, economic, religious motives.

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Slave trade abolition — year?

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1807 with the Slave Trade Act.

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Slavery abolition — year?

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1834 with the Slavery Abolition Act, finalized in 1838.

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British Raj — period?

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1858 to 1947, direct rule over India.

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Indian Rebellion of 1857 — significance?

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Led to direct Crown control and strengthened colonial rule.

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Inter-war policy — focus?

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Maintaining influence, managing independence movements.

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Decolonization — regions?

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Africa and the Caribbean.

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Orientalism — core idea?

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Western construction of the East as static and inferior.

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Otherness — meaning?

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Constructing the colonized as fundamentally different.

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Achebe’s legacy — work?

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Things Fall Apart, depicting Igbo life disrupted by colonialism.

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