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Please discuss at length the following questions and prompts. Be sure to type and double space your answers on a separate sheet of paper.
- Using your notes from the introduction to Post-Colonial Theory and Literature, explain West’s role as the center during colonization, the concept of the other and the subaltern.
- Things Fall Apart is a post-colonial text which is characterized as a “write back” explain what is meant by a ‘write back” and discuss why writers such as Chinua Achebe felt the need to write their own stories.
- 3In Things Fall Apart, discuss how Ikemefuna can be considered a Christ Figure.
- Anna and the King is a movie that was discussed in tandem with Things Fall Apart. During the anniversary scene Mycroft Kincaid attacks King Mongkut’s wives and concubine’s beliefs by calling them superstitions. How does the King counter Kincaid’s attack?
- In Fences, explain how Troy Maxson is a product of his environment.
- In The Narrative of Frederick Douglass explain this phrase “For it’s almost an unpardonable sin to teach a slave to read in this Christian country.” Discuss the significance of the word “Christian.”
- Discuss the conversion of Mistress Hugh. How did “slavery prove as injurious to her as it did me?”
- In Othello, explain the concept of Bestial Reductionism and list examples of it from the play.
Bonus “The Party” by Paul Laurence Dunbar takes place during the 18th century. What specific passage confirms the time period?
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1.Explain the Wests role as the center during colonization, the other concept and the
subaltern
The postcolonial theories are based on the otherness concept. This concept is based on identity
and difference, not forgetting double ness. The Wests concept is orientally inclined to viewing
the world as split into mutually excluding other parts: This means that if the west is good,
sensible, masculine and ordered then this made the orient vile, chaotic, feminine and irrational.
This concept sees the world as binary opposites that will form a dominance relation.
Otherness was also referred to as alterity by philosophers to show the change between the word
and rationale.
The subaltern we’re also known as people of “inferior classes”. They were denied a voice in
society and were politically, geographically and socially outside a colony. In accordance to postcolonial terms the subaltern was anyone and anything getting limited imperialism. They included
workers, peasants and all those denied of ‘hegemonic power’.
2.What is ‘write back’ and why does Chinua feel the need to write her story
“Write back”
This is postcolonial term that means challenging stories, ideas and people’s ways of life,
cultures, histories and stories.
Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart is a response to Hegel’s description and dismissal of Africa.
He writes his book in accordance with his familiarity of the African culture, his tribe the Igbo
value systems. He reacts to the discourse of the post-colonial period, during and after
colonization too. His work brings out to the world African culture and customs. He also
challenges who has the notion to determine what defines culture and humanity.
He felt the need to respond to Hegel’s work as he felt it was biased, inacceptable and inaccurate.
3.Why is Ikemefuna considered a Christ figure
Ikemefuna is considered a Christ figure because he dies a sacrificial lamb for the good of others.
Despite him being a good role model to ...
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