1. importance of literature in understanding postcolonialism
Benan ERTAN

2. “post” in Postcolonialism
Prefix meaning ‘after’
History behind colonialism?

3. COLONIALISM Power relationship established by military
Maintained by discourse and cultural imperialism
Form of practice, commercial operation

5. How to capture a colony?
Imposed their own values onto these colonized so that they were internalized
Socially
Culturally
Politically
Knowledge of colonizing dominated colonized

6. British Empire in the 1920s

7. Post-colonialism Period of time after colonialism
Raises issues like racism and exploitation
Offers a counter-narrative to the long tradition of European imperial narratives
Opression of those who were ruled under colonization

9. Literature’s effect Easy to create a discourse
Powerful tool in implementing ideas
Decolonize the mind

10. QUOTE BY GRACE NICHOLS

11. Song of Lawino by P’Bitek
Ocol is no longer in love with;
The old type;
He is in love with a modern girl …
To look like a white woman;
Her lips are red-hot;
Like glowing charcoal

12. Written to show the effect of colonialism
She inherits doubleness in her body
Effect of Eurocentricism
Whiteness is shown as the universal beauty
Her identity is white, body is black
Contributes to otherness

14. SOURCES
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