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2. Why, based on the quotes and clips, is postcolonial an inapt term to describe the world we live in today?

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3. How does the clip permit or even romanticise colonialism or the dominance of western ideology?

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4. How does the clip interpret the colonial encounter?

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5. How does the clip interpellate westerners?

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1. What is the difference between colonialism and neocolonialism based on these quotes and clips? Imperialism?

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THE HANDMAIDS TALE Season 1 TRAILER (2017) Hulu Series

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AVATAR Official Final Trailer (2009) James Cameron Sci-Fi Action Movie HD

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“Capitalism...has won the grand agon with communism, and is now ‘post-historic. Third World countries lag behind in the zone of the ‘historic,’ where matters are decided by force” (1195).

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The word ‘post’, moreover, reduces the cultures of peoples beyond colonialism to prepositional time. The term confers on colonialism the prestige of history proper; colonialism is the determining marker of history. (1187)

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“But while such caution is necessary , it can also lead to a reverse simplification, hereby the “Third World” is seen as a world entirely by its relation to colonialism.” (1109)

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“No post-colonial state anywhere has granted women and men equal access to the rights and resources of the nation-state. Not only have the needs of ‘post-colonial nations’ been largely identified with male conflicts, male aspirations and male interests, but the very representation of ‘national’ power rests on prior constructions of gender power” (1191).

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Welcome to Critical Theory's Postcolonial Discussion Board! Please review and consider each clip and answer the discussion questions. Then, for each quote, decide which clip most meaningfully represents it and justify your answer.