POST COLONIALISM & CULTURAL STUDIES

Prepared by:-

Hariyani VaidehiJethva MonaliOza BrijalJoshi Tejasvi.

Semester-2

Department of English, M.K.Bhavnagar University

POST -COLONIALISM OR POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES

• It is an academic discipline featuring method of intellectual discourse that analyze, explain and respond to the cultural legacies of colonialism and imperialism.

• It is concerned with the oppression of Non-European races by European ones.

• It is concerned with creating space for subaltern and marginalized group.

• It can be also seen as continuation of colonialism through Globalization.

GLOBALIZATION

• Globalization implies the opening of local and nationalistic perspectives to a broader outlook of an interconnected and interdependent world with free transfer of capital, goods and services across national frontiers.

GLOBALIZATION IN CULTURAL STUDIES

• Global where the European settler imposes cultural modes colony.

• It adapt and appropriates local culture.

• For example:- Current phase of Globalization is one of the colonial process.

• Globalization it also names a new protocol of writing and teaching in the humanities and social science.

• The emergence of globalization in cultural studies

• It has a sustained engagement with and influence on local cultures.

• Theme of race and unequal relations has to be worked into any analysis of global cultures.

• Culture has increasingly little to do with tradition or territories.

• Global economic and media flows determine what aspects of culture are adopted or abandoned.

FILMS EXPLORE OTHER CULTURES

THE CURRENT PHASE OF GLOBALIZATION

CULTURAL STUDIES IN A GLOBALIZING AGE? THIS APPROACH MAKES US ASK CERTAIN QUESTIONS ABOUT:

• Are local cultural products in any way determined by the possibility of a global market?• Are such cultural products

financed by non-local moneys?

• Hindi films being financed by non-resident Indians.

• Hindi films and their popularity in other countries where both non-resident Indians and others watch them.

• The stage shows performed by Bollywood stars extending Bollywood culture in other ways.

EXAMPLES:-

POSTCOLONIAL CULTURAL STUDIES MUST BE CONSCIOUS OF:

• Material nature• Marketing and symbolic values economic

gain or losses • ‘share’ of the local culture/economy• Kind of images associated with the object• Globalization produces ‘hybrid’ products

and cultural values

WHAT WE LEARNT!!!!!

• Local cultural artifacts are now produced keeping a global market in mind.

• This production of local (Third world) engaged in a relationship with the First world.

• The relationship between local cultures and the First world market remains, mostly, a colonial one, where the local culture is exploited by the First world.

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