Postcolonial Theory by Betsy Durning https://padlet.com/betsydurning1/obwavsiqvkq4o1m5 en-us 2023-03-29 16:23:22 UTC 2023-03-29 18:25:50 UTC hello@padlet.com unhomeliness- when someone feels they fit into either "category" of their identity https://padlet.com/betsydurning1/obwavsiqvkq4o1m5/wish/2537159912 2023-03-29 18:21:02 UTC https://padlet.com/betsydurning1/obwavsiqvkq4o1m5/wish/2537159912 https://padlet.com/betsydurning1/obwavsiqvkq4o1m5/wish/2537161400 I want to learn more about the social hierarchy that is referred to on page 267. Tyson mentions that subalterns are at the bottom of this hierarchy and members of the colonizing culture are at the top, but is there any other group involved? ]]> 2023-03-29 18:22:10 UTC https://padlet.com/betsydurning1/obwavsiqvkq4o1m5/wish/2537161400 https://padlet.com/betsydurning1/obwavsiqvkq4o1m5/wish/2537161508 I noticed that in We the Animals, the father demonstrated mimicry when he bought the new truck, as he wanted people to associate him with wealth and power despite being poor.

]]> 2023-03-29 18:22:16 UTC https://padlet.com/betsydurning1/obwavsiqvkq4o1m5/wish/2537161508 https://padlet.com/betsydurning1/obwavsiqvkq4o1m5/wish/2537161574 I think mimicry is the best tool for describing what happens in the battle royal, where the narrator is really just trying to copy and be like white society, which is where the conflict comes from. ]]> 2023-03-29 18:22:20 UTC https://padlet.com/betsydurning1/obwavsiqvkq4o1m5/wish/2537161574 Orientalism https://padlet.com/betsydurning1/obwavsiqvkq4o1m5/wish/2537161610 I didn't know there was a specific word for this- Western belief that people of Asian and Middle Eastern origin are sneaky, evil, sexually perverse etc. It is something I have seen before but always categorized as racism]]> 2023-03-29 18:22:21 UTC https://padlet.com/betsydurning1/obwavsiqvkq4o1m5/wish/2537161610 mimicry is actually a compliment in wanting to belong to another culture. However it stems from a colonial mindset as you believe one culture is better than the other and you adopt their ways. https://padlet.com/betsydurning1/obwavsiqvkq4o1m5/wish/2537161826 2023-03-29 18:22:32 UTC https://padlet.com/betsydurning1/obwavsiqvkq4o1m5/wish/2537161826 The Colonial Subject https://padlet.com/betsydurning1/obwavsiqvkq4o1m5/wish/2537161947 Throughout every lense there seems to be a part of internalisation and whether it was race, feminist, queer which pertains to identity or Marxist, postcolonial or Pshycoanalytic. ]]> 2023-03-29 18:22:39 UTC https://padlet.com/betsydurning1/obwavsiqvkq4o1m5/wish/2537161947 Colonialist ideology https://padlet.com/betsydurning1/obwavsiqvkq4o1m5/wish/2537162077 Consistent with a lot of the other theories we've read about. Specifically, how one group believes they are inherently superior over the other based on an unsupported assumption. Similarities in other theories that come to mind are classism, racism, homophobia, and sexism. All of these have to do with superiority. ]]> 2023-03-29 18:22:45 UTC https://padlet.com/betsydurning1/obwavsiqvkq4o1m5/wish/2537162077 https://padlet.com/betsydurning1/obwavsiqvkq4o1m5/wish/2537162753 I found it interesting to learn about the idea of unhomeliness as I would not have thought that there are some people who do not want to associate with their own culture. I thought that, especially in a colonized scenario, people would be more inclined to side with or be more emphatic about their own culture, rather than the dominant one. ]]> 2023-03-29 18:23:14 UTC https://padlet.com/betsydurning1/obwavsiqvkq4o1m5/wish/2537162753 difference in postcolonial literature written by colonizers as opposed to colonized people https://padlet.com/betsydurning1/obwavsiqvkq4o1m5/wish/2537163134 2023-03-29 18:23:33 UTC https://padlet.com/betsydurning1/obwavsiqvkq4o1m5/wish/2537163134 https://padlet.com/betsydurning1/obwavsiqvkq4o1m5/wish/2537163473 I found it interesting how postcolonial theory integrates all of the other theories we have learned about while also tieing in different factors such as ethnicity, religion, customs, etc. which helps us better understand different cultures and people. I also found anticolonialist resistance pretty interesting and how people can understand the oppression around them but choose to not cave into it.]]> 2023-03-29 18:23:49 UTC https://padlet.com/betsydurning1/obwavsiqvkq4o1m5/wish/2537163473 https://padlet.com/betsydurning1/obwavsiqvkq4o1m5/wish/2537163685 I found one of the basic concepts very interesting for me. Unhomeliness - the feeling I was recently thinking about but didn't know the name and the exact definition of it. I connected it to my personal experience and understood that a lot of people may experience this feeling too ]]> 2023-03-29 18:23:58 UTC https://padlet.com/betsydurning1/obwavsiqvkq4o1m5/wish/2537163685 https://padlet.com/betsydurning1/obwavsiqvkq4o1m5/wish/2537164106 Mimicry could be seen in the BAttle Royal when the main character tries to appeal and be like the white majority. ]]> 2023-03-29 18:24:19 UTC https://padlet.com/betsydurning1/obwavsiqvkq4o1m5/wish/2537164106 https://padlet.com/betsydurning1/obwavsiqvkq4o1m5/wish/2537166150 When people choose to go to a new country I wonder what the balance is of preserving and bringing their culture with them is versus assimilating into a new culture and when does that become "colonizing" vs just accepting that you are somewhere new 

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