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English V Postcolonial Criticism and Multiculturalism Key Terms

Terms in this set (28)

African
of or pertaining to Africa or any of its people or language
African-American
Of or pertaining to American blacks of African ancestry, or their history, or their culture
anachronistic space
a trope according to which "imperial progress across the space of empire is figured as a journey backward in time to an anachronistic moment of prehistory..... Geographical difference across space is figured as a historical difference across time".
asian
of or pertaining to Asia or its people
black
belonging to an ethnic group having dark skin
british
of, pertaining to, or characteristic go Great Britain, the United Kingdom, or the British Empire
diaspora
"groups of persons of the same ethno-national origin who themselves, or theirs ancestors, voluntarily or under coercion migrated from one place to another, or to several other places, settled in these other places, and maintain their identity and various kinds of contracts with their place of origin".
Dislocation
a kind of displacement resulting "migration, the experience of enslavement, transportation, or voluntary removal for indentured labor
cultural denigration
a kind of displacement involving "the conscious and unconscious oppression of the indigenous personality and culture by a supposedly superior racial or cultural model
Dehumanization
a systematic negation of the other person, and a furious determination to deny to deny the other person all attributes of humanity
English (RS-English)
asserts the English of south-east England as a universal norm
English
describes the way English as a "language has been employed by different linguistic communities throughout the world and has been transformed and subverted into several distinctive varieties
european
of, pertains to, or derived from Europe
hybridity
the way that colonized people and colonizers have taken on many if each other's ways of living and thinking
hybridization
the response to another culture that "mixes elements of yourself with elements of the other"
imperialism
the policy of extending a nation's authority by territorial acquisition or by the establishment of economic and political hegemony over other nations
internal colony
colonies that for when settlers forcibly or culturally limit outnumbered indigenous people to specific areas where, surrounded by settlers, they live
mimicry
Homi Babha's description of the process by which colonized people adopt that colonizers' language, educational systems, governmental systems(parliament or congress, courts, constitution, laws), clothing, music, and so on
multiculturalism
cultural diversity or the coexistence of different cultures in the same geographical space
native American
a member of the indigenous peoples of North America
Négritude
a literary and political movement that proposes that black people, whether from Africa or the African diaspora, share a collective personality that differs radically from the European colonizers
occupation colony
a colony where colonists remain a small part of the population. Typically, they leave their metropolitan homes to do their work exploiting the colony, and then they return home and other colonizers replace them
panoptical time
the image of global history consumed at a glance in a single spectacle from a point of privileged invisibility
postcolonial
a term that covers all the culture affected by the imperial process from the moment of colonization to the present day
race
a concept that divides people into groups on the basis of certain arbitrarily selected hereditary characteristics and that works to emphasize, explain, and excuse the power some groups over others
raj
British rule in India
settler colony
a colony where the colonizers move in permanently, and they or their descendants often grow far more numerous than the people they colonize, whose number the colonizers often reduce by disease and by abuses that sometime reach the level of genocide
Syncretism
the process by which previously distinct linguistic categories, and by extension, cultural formations, merge into a single new form
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