World Lit Midterm

 Edward Said-Orientalism, the Other
 Frantz Fanon-Black Skin, White Masks, The Wretched of the
Earth
 Paul Gilroy-Postcolonial melancholy, Civilizationism
 Homi Bhabha- Hybridity, Mimicry, Ambivalence
 Gayatri Spivak*-“Can the Subaltern Speak?”

Anti-colonial: Evokes direct or overt opposition to
colonial rule—both historical and ongoing.
• Postcolonial: Most used in literary and cultural
studies. Implies a sense of past (of direct rule by a
colonizer state) but does not mean that colonialism’s
effects are over. Calls for end to or pastness of
colonialism.
• Decolonial: Exposes underlying colonialism in Western
thinking (even beyond literal colonization). Questions
how knowledge is produced. Aims to “de-link”
Eurocentrism from thinking about persons and
cultures. Implies a radical, continuous process against
a lasting, pervasive colonialism and its effects.