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Africa Lit
Mid-term review for Africa Global Lit course
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 2000 BC - 1415 AD | Precolonial era |
| 1415-2002 AD (Height 1870 - 1914 AD) | Colonial era |
| 1956 AD - Present Day | Post Colonial era |
| The principle, policy, or practice of acquiring full or partial political control over another country by occupying it with settlers. | Colonialism |
| Evokes a direct or overt opposition to colonial rule, both historical and ongoing. (Claim) | Anti-colonial |
| Most used in literary and cultural studies, implies a sense of post but does not mean colonialism's effects are over. Calls for an end or a pastness of colonialism. (Evidence) | Postcolonial |
| Exposes underlying colonialism in western thinking. Questions how knowledge is produced. Aims to "de-link" eurocentrism from thinking about persons and cultures. (Continuous process) (Call to action/reasoning) | Decolonial |
| Wrote Orientalism. Says there is a subtle Eurocentric prejudice against Eastern cultures, that the romanticized East in Western cultures have been used to justify colonialism. Criticizes how prejudices are internalized and draw intra-cultural divisions. | Edward Said (Palestinian-American academic, literary critic, and political activist) |
| Someone viewed as exotic, alien, distant, different, romanticized, antique, fantastic, sensual (sexualized), foreign, inscrutable, because of their supposed difference | Concept of “the exotic Other,” or simply, “the Other”. |
| Written by Chinua Achebe, publish in 1950's originally in English. Takes place in Late 19th century Nigeria. Follows Igbo tribe. | Things Fall Apart |
| Written by Tayeb Salih, published in 1966 originally is Arabic. Set in the 60's with flash backs to earlier decades. | Season of Migration to the North |
| Takes place in 1994 Rwanda, following Paul a Hutu hotel manager during the Hutu vs. Tutsi civil war. Likely caused by Belgian emphasis of Tutsi and Hutu division through empowering the Tutsi class during colonial occupation. | Hotel Rwanda |
| Wrote "Black Skin, White Masks" (1952) and "The Wretched of the Earth" (1961). Defends the right of colonized peoples to use violence to gain independence. "Violent resistance is a necessity imposed by the colonists upon the colonized" | Frantz Fanon (Martinican psychiatrist, political philosopher, and postcolonial cultural theorist – “the most influential anticolonial thinker of his time”) |
| National midlife crisis. The idea that there was a past time that they were greater and should return to. | Postcolonial melancholia |
| Trying to separate "white" population from the "other" populations when it comes to level of civilization. (Putting white people above when it comes to complexity) | Civilizationism |
| Indian scholar and critical theorist—one of the most important figures in postcolonial studies Ambivalence, Mimicry, Hybridity. | Homi Bhabha |
| The mixing of cultures, creating new identities that are not fully one culture or the other, but a blend of both. | Hybridity |
| When the colonized people seemingly imitate the colonizer’s culture but do so in a way that subtly critiques, mocks, and/or undermines the power dynamics. | Mimicry |
| The uncertainty and ambiguity present in the process of cultural mixing, where neither the colonizer nor colonized can fully understand or control the new identities emerging. | Ambivalence |
| Wrote "Can the Subaltern Speak". Considers history, geography, class, and gender in positing that women are often the most anonymous and mute members of colonial states. In other words, they are “the subaltern.” | Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (Indian scholar, literary theorist, and feminist critic—among the most influential postcolonial intellectuals) |
| colonial subjects who are socially, politically, and geographically excluded from the hierarchy of power in a colonial state. | Subaltern |
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