Brit Lit Exam 3

Edward Said

Wrote Orientalism and was a political activist

Orientalism

By Edward Said, academically examined the Middle East, Asia, and non-western areas

Postcolonialism

refers to colonies after colonial rule, essentially after WWI and WWII, when European countries had to protect themselves and not worry about their colonies as much

Hybridity

mixing races

Mimicry

the colonizes subjects attempt to imitate the colonizer, acquires language and look of imperializer

The other

a subject of the Empire, a representative of another race, ethnic, or geographic group

Subaltern

powerless representative of the subject

Is Conrad racist

He is not because he depicts how the Africans were being mistreated by the companies and by Kurtz

Waiting for the Barbarians

The magistrate realizes the poor treatment of the barbarians when he himself is treated like one after being accused of conspiring with them

Decolonizing the mind

Argues the colonialism and the language that the British implemeted is determining how vulture view themselves. Wants to reinstate the Kenyan language and original stories in Kenya

Shooting an Elephant

Orwell has to kill an elephant because he feels pressured to by the natives- he has no power and can only do what the natives consent