https://padlet.com/bszymanski3/4hz26s2ug9qn By Beth Szymanski and Jacqueline Hase en-us 2016-03-29 22:38:53 UTC 2025-10-06 04:03:47 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.storage.googleapis.com/portrait/notebook.jpg bszymanski3 https://padlet.com/bszymanski3/4hz26s2ug9qn/wish/103147782 2016-03-29 22:48:32 UTC https://padlet.com/bszymanski3/4hz26s2ug9qn/wish/103147782 bszymanski3 https://padlet.com/bszymanski3/4hz26s2ug9qn/wish/103148117 2016-03-29 22:53:34 UTC https://padlet.com/bszymanski3/4hz26s2ug9qn/wish/103148117 bszymanski3 https://padlet.com/bszymanski3/4hz26s2ug9qn/wish/103148187 2016-03-29 22:54:34 UTC https://padlet.com/bszymanski3/4hz26s2ug9qn/wish/103148187 bszymanski3 https://padlet.com/bszymanski3/4hz26s2ug9qn/wish/103148314 2016-03-29 22:56:25 UTC https://padlet.com/bszymanski3/4hz26s2ug9qn/wish/103148314 bszymanski3 https://padlet.com/bszymanski3/4hz26s2ug9qn/wish/103285904 The attempt to understand the problems posed by the European colonization and its aftermath.]]> 2016-03-30 16:26:08 UTC https://padlet.com/bszymanski3/4hz26s2ug9qn/wish/103285904 bszymanski3 https://padlet.com/bszymanski3/4hz26s2ug9qn/wish/103286379 Postcolonial institutions and experiences, from the idea of the independent nation to the idea of culture itself, are entangled with the discursive practices of the West.]]> 2016-03-30 16:27:57 UTC https://padlet.com/bszymanski3/4hz26s2ug9qn/wish/103286379 bszymanski3 https://padlet.com/bszymanski3/4hz26s2ug9qn/wish/103286869 Postcolonial theory and writing has become an attempt to intervene in the construction of culture and knowledge, and, for intellectuals who come from postcolonial societies, to write their way back into a history others have written.]]> 2016-03-30 16:29:48 UTC https://padlet.com/bszymanski3/4hz26s2ug9qn/wish/103286869 bszymanski3 https://padlet.com/bszymanski3/4hz26s2ug9qn/wish/103288333 From the late seventeenth century to the middle of the twentieth century, Britain extended its national rule to countries and areas all over the world: to North America, Africa, the Middle East, India, Asia, the West Indies, South America, and Polynesia, creating colonies in these lands and, in most cases, taking over the administration of government, so that British laws and customs ruled the people who lived half a world away from Britain itself.]]> 2016-03-30 16:35:13 UTC https://padlet.com/bszymanski3/4hz26s2ug9qn/wish/103288333 bszymanski3 https://padlet.com/bszymanski3/4hz26s2ug9qn/wish/103289111 Most British colonies of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries did not rebel and form their own nations - largely because he people of those nations were non-whites, non-Western people.]]> 2016-03-30 16:38:47 UTC https://padlet.com/bszymanski3/4hz26s2ug9qn/wish/103289111 bszymanski3 https://padlet.com/bszymanski3/4hz26s2ug9qn/wish/103289788 2016-03-30 16:41:45 UTC https://padlet.com/bszymanski3/4hz26s2ug9qn/wish/103289788 bszymanski3 https://padlet.com/bszymanski3/4hz26s2ug9qn/wish/103290274 British colonial rule depended on seeing the indigenous populations of these colonized areas as inferior, as therefore needing the "advanced civilization" offered by Western culture.]]> 2016-03-30 16:44:02 UTC https://padlet.com/bszymanski3/4hz26s2ug9qn/wish/103290274 bszymanski3 https://padlet.com/bszymanski3/4hz26s2ug9qn/wish/103290777 In places like Africa and India, British colonial rule meant teaching the indigenous people about the superiority of Western practices: through setting up systems of police and courts and legislatures following British laws, through sending missionaries to convert natives to Christianity and establishing churches and seminaries, and through setting up schools to teach British customs, British history, and the English language to children and adults, in order to make them more like British citizens.]]> 2016-03-30 16:46:05 UTC https://padlet.com/bszymanski3/4hz26s2ug9qn/wish/103290777 bszymanski3 https://padlet.com/bszymanski3/4hz26s2ug9qn/wish/103294247 2016-03-30 17:01:19 UTC https://padlet.com/bszymanski3/4hz26s2ug9qn/wish/103294247 bszymanski3 https://padlet.com/bszymanski3/4hz26s2ug9qn/wish/103294316 Takes on the politics of the study of "English" literature and culture from the perspective of those who were colonized by it.]]> 2016-03-30 17:01:43 UTC https://padlet.com/bszymanski3/4hz26s2ug9qn/wish/103294316 bszymanski3 https://padlet.com/bszymanski3/4hz26s2ug9qn/wish/103294836 Would ask whether an "English department" necessarily reinforces the hegemony of Western cultural practices and thus supports the political and economic forces which have subordinated what we have come to call the "third world."]]> 2016-03-30 17:03:42 UTC https://padlet.com/bszymanski3/4hz26s2ug9qn/wish/103294836 bszymanski3 https://padlet.com/bszymanski3/4hz26s2ug9qn/wish/103295700 Postcolonial Theory is centrally concerned with examining the mechanisms through which the colonizing powers persuaded the colonized people to accept foreign culture as "better" than their own indigenous methods of government and social organization]]> 2016-03-30 17:06:34 UTC https://padlet.com/bszymanski3/4hz26s2ug9qn/wish/103295700 bszymanski3 https://padlet.com/bszymanski3/4hz26s2ug9qn/wish/103296679 Postcolonial designates the time after official colonial rule.]]> 2016-03-30 17:10:04 UTC https://padlet.com/bszymanski3/4hz26s2ug9qn/wish/103296679 bszymanski3 https://padlet.com/bszymanski3/4hz26s2ug9qn/wish/103298041 2016-03-30 17:15:08 UTC https://padlet.com/bszymanski3/4hz26s2ug9qn/wish/103298041 bszymanski3 https://padlet.com/bszymanski3/4hz26s2ug9qn/wish/103298921 2016-03-30 17:18:26 UTC https://padlet.com/bszymanski3/4hz26s2ug9qn/wish/103298921 bszymanski3 https://padlet.com/bszymanski3/4hz26s2ug9qn/wish/103299133 Race and postcolonial theorists are interested in studying how distinctions based on race are made, circulated, and enforced. ]]> 2016-03-30 17:19:23 UTC https://padlet.com/bszymanski3/4hz26s2ug9qn/wish/103299133 bszymanski3 https://padlet.com/bszymanski3/4hz26s2ug9qn/wish/103299630 When we think about race, we usually think about the physical or biological traits that supposedly mark "race," such as hair, eye, and skin color. These traits or markers show that the concept of "race" is actually a signifying system, wherein certain physiological facts become signifiers connected to specific ideological signifieds.]]> 2016-03-30 17:21:33 UTC https://padlet.com/bszymanski3/4hz26s2ug9qn/wish/103299630 bszymanski3 https://padlet.com/bszymanski3/4hz26s2ug9qn/wish/103301600 2016-03-30 17:28:59 UTC https://padlet.com/bszymanski3/4hz26s2ug9qn/wish/103301600 bszymanski3 https://padlet.com/bszymanski3/4hz26s2ug9qn/wish/103301891 Postcolonial literary studies, and postcolonial theory in general, focus on what happens when the formerly colonized culture starts to, or insists on, producing its own knowledge about itself.]]> 2016-03-30 17:30:00 UTC https://padlet.com/bszymanski3/4hz26s2ug9qn/wish/103301891 bszymanski3 https://padlet.com/bszymanski3/4hz26s2ug9qn/wish/103302504 Postcolonial literature, literature by people who can't be identified as belonging to one specific nation, challenges us to think about how we might organize our universities, and our systems of knowledge, so that we don't reproduce the narratives of nationhood and thus silence or lose the voices which are excluded from those narratives.]]> 2016-03-30 17:32:19 UTC https://padlet.com/bszymanski3/4hz26s2ug9qn/wish/103302504 https://padlet.com/bszymanski3/4hz26s2ug9qn/wish/130611865 2016-10-13 21:39:00 UTC https://padlet.com/bszymanski3/4hz26s2ug9qn/wish/130611865