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The Postcolonial Studies Dictionary by Pramod K. Nayar

By Pramod K. Nayar

This new Dictionary incorporates a thoughtfully collated number of over one hundred fifty jargon-free definitions of keyword phrases and ideas in postcolonial concept. * includes a short advent to postcolonial conception and an inventory of urged additional analyzing that comes with the texts within which lots of those phrases originated * every one access comprises the origins of the time period, the place traceable; a close rationalization of its perceived that means; and examples of the time period s use in literary-cultural texts * accommodates phrases and ideas from a number of disciplines, together with anthropology, literary reviews, technological know-how, economics, globalization reviews, politics, and philosophy * presents an excellent better half textual content to the imminent Postcolonial experiences: An Anthology, that's additionally edited via Pramod okay. Nayar, a highly-respected authority within the box

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In India, for example, Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay and the diasporic Toru Dutt experiment with the novel as a form (although India’s narrative traditions did not include this form).

Rushdie suggests that it is the indigenization that really adds the tangy, acerbic taste to the former colonial language. It implies mixing, spicing‐up, and a whole new stylization, where the side dish, standing as a kind of adjunct, becomes central to the full savouring of the main dish. In more political terms ‘chutneyfication’ implies a resistance to the hegemonic nature and dominance of the former colonial master’s language, a nativization and therefore agency, and finally a hybridization. It indicates that new forms of the English language emerge not within England but within the former colonies.

For postcolonial writers and ­critics the barbarian was a stereotype that enabled the European to define themselves. The barbarian was non‐ or pre‐modern, primitive and savage in contrast with the European who was modern and civilized. M. Coetzee in Waiting for the Barbarians (1980). Here the white imperialists raid the indigenous settlements, torturing and killing the so‐called barbaric natives. The Magistrate who begins to worry about the ethics of imperial domination is himself ­tortured by his countrymen for supporting the b ­ arbarians.

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