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Colonialism

Colonialism is a practice of domination, which involves the subjugation of one people to another. One of the difficulties in defining colonialism is that it is hard to distinguish it [...]

By Masood Raja|2019-11-14T14:28:46-06:00May 2nd, 2019|Comments Off

Originally, Diaspora literally meant a "scattering" of the people and referred to the early Greek populations that scattered to colonize other territories. In the classical sense, however, after the translation [...]

By Masood Raja|2019-11-21T11:00:30-06:00May 2nd, 2019|Comments Off

Discourse

By Masood Raja|2019-11-15T12:46:41-06:00November 15th, 2019|Comments Off

Dominance

According to Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci, power (state) works either through dominance or hegemony. Dominance involves the coercive use of brute force such as the police, army, or the law [...]

By Masood Raja|2019-11-13T13:32:39-06:00May 2nd, 2019|Comments Off

Essentialism

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By Masood Raja|2019-11-23T13:23:55-06:00May 2nd, 2019|Comments Off

Formalism

Literary Theory: Formalism and New Criticism Most of this lecture has been recorded using the discussion of Formalism and New Criticism from the New World Encyclopedia. In literary criticism, Formalism [...]

By Masood Raja|2019-11-25T11:46:59-06:00November 25th, 2019|Comments Off

Going Native

Postcolonial Concepts: Going Native Going native was used as a pejorative term to point to any Europeans wo, while living in the colonies, adopted the customs and habits of the [...]

By Masood Raja|2019-11-26T10:42:13-06:00November 26th, 2019|Comments Off

Hegemony

Hegemony, the dominance of one group over another, often supported by legitimating norms and ideas. The term hegemony is today often used as shorthand to describe the relatively dominant position of a particular set [...]

By Masood Raja|2019-11-13T13:34:26-06:00May 2nd, 2019|Comments Off

Hybridity

By Masood Raja|2019-05-03T14:45:58-05:00May 2nd, 2019|Comments Off

Imperialism

In postcolonial theory Imperialism always refers to the ideology that promotes a worldview in which one group of people or a nation assumes that it is inherently superior to other [...]

By Masood Raja|2019-11-14T14:29:57-06:00May 2nd, 2019|Comments Off