Postcolonial Space

Exploring the impact of racism in literature through 'Heart of Darkness', reinterpreting the portrayal of Africa, analyzing Achebe's critique, and teaching the novel as a lesson in literary racism.

Delve into the complexities of Joseph Conrad's novel, Heart of Darkness, through a postcolonial lens. Unpack the brutal colonization of Congo under King Leopold II and the impact of European imperialism. Explore the harsh realities of colonial rule in Congo, the exploitation of natives, and the enigmatic figure of Kurtz. Critically analyze representations in the novel, highlighting Euro-centric perspectives, marginalized African voices, and implications on environmental perspectives and historical contexts of colonialism.

Orientalism: Chapter 1(Pages 43-46)| Edward Said| Postcolonialism This episode  includes another  lecture on Chapter 1 of Orientalism and covers pages 43- to 46 of the book.  If you have ever wondered "What is orientalism" or how does Edward Said employ and explain orientalism as a concept then this series on actually reading Orientalism can be of much use to you.  The page numbers that I refer to are from the 1994 Vintage Books edition. I strongly recommend that you should read the book along with these video conversations:  Edward Said. "Orientalism." https://amzn.to/3fZqWLKEdward Said. "The World, the Text, and the Critic."https://amzn.to/38sFDEnRaymond Williams: "The Long Revolution." https://amzn.to/2YZINMVNoam Chomsky: "American Power and the New Mandarins: Historical and Political Essays." https://amzn.to/3iuClFy Full text of Balfour's Speech: https://api.parliament.uk/historic-ha...

Reading Orientalism: Chapter 1(Pages 40-43)| Edward Said| Postcolonialism| Postcolonial Theory   This episode  includes my  third lecture on Chapter 1 of Orientalism and covers pages 40 to 43 of the book.   If you have ever wondered "What is orientalism" or how does Edward Said employ and explain orientalism as a concept then this series on actually reading Orientalism can be of much use to you.  The page numbers that I refer to are from the 1994 Vintage Books edition. I strongly recommend that you should read the book along with these video conversations:  Edward Said. "Orientalism." https://amzn.to/3fZqWLKEdward Said. "The World, the Text, and the Critic."https://amzn.to/38sFDEnRaymond Williams: "The Long Revolution." https://amzn.to/2YZINMVNoam Chomsky: "American Power and the New Mandarins: Historical and Political Essays." https://amzn.to/3iuClFy

Episode 10 (Season 2) Orientalism, Chapter 1 (Pages 36-40)| Edward Said  This episode  includes my  first lecture on Chapter 1 of Orientalism and covers from pages 36 to 40  of the book.    If you have ever wondered "What is orientalism" or how does Edward Said employ and explain orientalism as a concept then this series on actually reading Orientalism can be of much use to you.   The page numbers that I refer to are from the 1994 Vintage Books edition. I strongly recommend that you should read the book along with these video conversations:   Edward Said. "Orientalism."  Edward Said. "The World, the Text, and the Critic." Raymond Williams: "The Long Revolution."  Noam Chomsky: "American Power and the New Mandarins: Historical and Political Essays."  Full text of Balfour's Speech

Episode 9 (Season 2) Orientalism, Chapter 1 (Pages 35-36)| Edward Said This episode  includes my  first lecture on Chapter 1 of Orientalism and covers from pages 35 to 35 of the book.    If you have ever wondered "What is orientalism" or how does Edward Said employ and explain orientalism as a concept then this series on actually reading Orientalism can be of much use to you.   The page numbers that I refer to are from the 1994 Vintage Books edition. I strongly recommend that you should read the book along with these video conversations:   Edward Said. "Orientalism."  Edward Said. "The World, the Text, and the Critic." Raymond Williams: "The Long Revolution."  Noam Chomsky: "American Power and the New Mandarins: Historical and Political Essays."  Full text of Balfour's Speech

This episode  includes my  first lecture on Chapter 1 of Orientalism and covers from pages 30 to 34 of the book.   If you have ever wondered "What is orientalism" or how does Edward Said employ and explain orientalism as a concept then this series on actually reading Orientalism can be of much use to you.  The page numbers that I refer to are from the 1994 Vintage Books edition. I strongly recommend that you should read the book along with these video conversations:   Edward Said. "Orientalism."  Edward Said. "The World, the Text, and the Critic." Raymond Williams: "The Long Revolution."  Noam Chomsky: "American Power and the New Mandarins: Historical and Political Essays."  Full text of Balfour's Speech

adapted from my Youtube channel, this is the final episode that discusses the introduction to Edward said's "Orientalism."

Adapted from my Youtube channel, this is another episode in my series on Edward said's Orientalism. In this episode I discuss part three of Said's Introdcution.

What is Allochronic Discourse? | Postcolonialism | Johannes Fabian Allochronic discourse is a term coined and elaborated by Johannes Fabian, allochronism and originally referred to the practices in the field of anthropology, though it can be expanded very easily to apply to other cultural studies fields. Fabian first points out that a major flaw in Western  anthropological studies is a “denial of coevalness,” which he terms allochrinism, under which not only the European studying subject observes his or her study objects,  non-European others,  in a different colonized space but that in this act of observation while both the ethnographer and his or her object exist in the same time, the ethnographer renders the object of study as if existing in another, past, time, thus stabilizing the present of Europe as the real time and plotting the objects of study in a past time. This happens even though the two participants in this exchange exist in the same serial time. This, thus, ends up offering the colonial cultures as ossified, static, and “primitive.”   (Source: Bloomsbury Handbook of Literary and Cultural Theory) https://amzn.to/363gOMU